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Bill	State government: workers' compensation: compensation.	Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law establishes, in the Department of Industrial Relations, a Division of Workers' Compensation to administer those provisions. In administering and enforcing those provisions, existing law requires the division to protect the interests of injured workers and requires all forms and notices to be given to employees by the division to be in English and Spanish.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 438	California AB 438 (20152016)	bill	State government: workers' compensation: compensation.	enacted	Chiu	7	26	6	2015-02-23	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/0e33d365-005b-4d64-81b0-97440a888802	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB438	0b1acb130798c4b71e2d7846f25d671f9910ca65da8c5c2068a3e07467e63272	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 438 (20152016) — State government: workers' compensation: compensation.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law establishes, in the Department of Industrial Relations, a Division of Workers' Compensation to administer those provisions. In administering and enforcing those provisions, existing law requires the division to protect the interests of injured workers and requires all forms and notices to be given to employees by the division to be in English and Spanish.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB438 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB438 Chiu By Pan — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 438 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 60–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 438 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2015-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 1428.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-28 Referred to Coms. on INS. and L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2015-06-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2015-06-02 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2015-06-11 Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2015-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2642.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3056.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 515, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e33d365-005b-4d64-81b0-97440a888802. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).