republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-583.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military service: employment protections."
description: "Existing law provides protections for members of the National Guard ordered into active state service by the Governor or active federal service by the President of the United States for emergency purposes, and for reservists called to active duty, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 583"
citation: "California AB 583 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military service: employment protections."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chávez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec3e9830-4cf2-4dc3-95da-8b5f7d1c2614"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583"
source_hash: "a20eeade756cb44a5645eecccc4f5bd28f97de14535e7e6bd48c780135621f3f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 583 (20152016) — Military service: employment protections.

Existing law provides protections for members of the National Guard ordered into active state service by the Governor or active federal service by the President of the United States for emergency purposes, and for reservists called to active duty, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583&version=20150AB58399INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583&version=20150AB58398AMD)
3. **04/15/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583&version=20150AB58397AMD)
4. **08/12/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583&version=20150AB58395CHP)
5. **AB583** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583)
6. **07/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB583&version=20150AB58396ENR)

## Votes

- AB 583 CHÁVEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #4 AB583 Chávez By Nielsen — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chávez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Coms. on V.A. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1347.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1793.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 183, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ec3e9830-4cf2-4dc3-95da-8b5f7d1c2614`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).