republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-255.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State government: Commission on the Status of Women and Girls."
description: "Existing law creates within the state government the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls that consists of 17 members, and specifies that one member is the Chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare in the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law abolished the Division of Industrial Welfare and transferred the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare to the Labor Commissioner, who is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 255"
citation: "California SB 255 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State government: Commission on the Status of Women and Girls."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-18"
last_action: "2015-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4050be11-0145-4641-a57c-e8172d543907"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255"
source_hash: "9021d06c62743b09c53e5e9d6462e44bdf62835c06e16f3c63c2873145bcfad7"
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 255 (20152016) — State government: Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.

Existing law creates within the state government the Commission on the Status of Women and Girls that consists of 17 members, and specifies that one member is the Chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare in the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law abolished the Division of Industrial Welfare and transferred the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare to the Labor Commissioner, who is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255&version=20150SB25599INT)
2. **06/25/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255&version=20150SB25598AMD)
3. **08/17/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255&version=20150SB25597AMD)
4. **10/07/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255&version=20150SB25595CHP)
5. **SB255** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255)
6. **09/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB255&version=20150SB25596ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 255 Liu Senate Third Reading By GARCIA, C. — **77–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB255 Liu Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Liu — primary (person)
- Jackson — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2015-02-26** Referred to Com. on G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2015-05-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 973.) (May 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1029.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-19** August 19 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 2691.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2367.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:45 p.m.
- **2015-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 574, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4050be11-0145-4641-a57c-e8172d543907`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).