republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-1001.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: unfair practices."
description: "Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of or intent to retaliate against any person for exercising a protected right, as specified. Existing law defines requesting more or different documents than are required under federal law, or refusing to honor documents tendered that on their face reasonably appear to be genuine, as an unfair immigration-related practice."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1001"
citation: "California SB 1001 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: unfair practices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2016-02-10"
last_action: "2016-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cf248d60-6602-44e7-a86f-999dccb020eb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001"
source_hash: "1ff996775d9a56fad1c6140a014e9ba9f6e319f9a13d5c01aad9914a559d3d59"
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 SB 1001 (20152016) — Employment: unfair practices.

Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of or intent to retaliate against any person for exercising a protected right, as specified. Existing law defines requesting more or different documents than are required under federal law, or refusing to honor documents tendered that on their face reasonably appear to be genuine, as an unfair immigration-related practice.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001&version=20150SB100199INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001&version=20150SB100198AMD)
3. **08/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001&version=20150SB100197AMD)
4. **09/28/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001&version=20150SB100195CHP)
5. **SB1001** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001)
6. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1001&version=20150SB100196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1001 Mitchell Concurrence — **28–10** (pass) · upper
- SB 1001 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By CHIU — **67–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **29–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mitchell — primary (person)
- Chiu — principal coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Thurmond — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-24** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2016-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3394.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-08** Set for hearing April 13 in L. & I.R. pending receipt.
- **2016-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3520.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-15** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2016-04-25** April 25 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2016-05-20** Set for hearing May 27.
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4001.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 4040.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-03** August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2016-08-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 5.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 12. Page 6233.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-26** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 5450.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2016-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 782, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cf248d60-6602-44e7-a86f-999dccb020eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).