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Bill	Discrimination: regulations and enforcement.	Existing law prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, and eligibility for government programs and benefits based upon specified personal characteristics. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency is charged with enforcement of civil rights violations, including discrimination. Existing law requires the department and other state agencies that administer programs or activities funded by the state or that receive financial assistance from the state and that enter into contracts for services to be provided to the public, as specified, to promulgate regulations to prohibit discrimination.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1442	California SB 1442 (20152016)	bill	Discrimination: regulations and enforcement.	enacted	Liu	8	31	7	2016-02-19	2016-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/93daaed2-2743-45cf-b93d-c56699534e93	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1442	9137bcd9ebd4f790e7bbb3d5f5ca2ecae4dfda4a792523eb79dea7bdb564c28b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1442 (20152016) — Discrimination: regulations and enforcement.

Existing law prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, and eligibility for government programs and benefits based upon specified personal characteristics. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency is charged with enforcement of civil rights violations, including discrimination. Existing law requires the department and other state agencies that administer programs or activities funded by the state or that receive financial assistance from the state and that enter into contracts for services to be provided to the public, as specified, to promulgate regulations to prohibit discrimination.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/26/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1442 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1442 Liu Senate Third Reading By RIDLEY-THOMAS — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Liu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2016-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3494.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-14 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2016-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3611.) (April 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2016-05-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3956.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-06-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-16 June 21 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-21 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
• 2016-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Waldron.
• 2016-08-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5904.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5431.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
• 2016-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 870, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93daaed2-2743-45cf-b93d-c56699534e93. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).