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Bill	Removing Barriers to Employment Act: Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative.	Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. That act requires the establishment of a local workforce development board in each local workforce development area of the state to, among other things, carry out analyses of the economic conditions in the local region.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1111	California AB 1111 (20172018)	bill	Removing Barriers to Employment Act: Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative.	enacted	Eduardo Garcia	10	34	5	2017-02-17	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/2b220d78-b04e-462e-8c15-9f1926b597ac	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1111	7318fcb0e7f72ce89e2c7704f13c5e0c5b378771e90e64d2d0ac9645ba37ee79	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1111 (20172018) — Removing Barriers to Employment Act: Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative.

Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. That act requires the establishment of a local workforce development board in each local workforce development area of the state to, among other things, carry out analyses of the economic conditions in the local region.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/19/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1111 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1111 GARCIA, E. Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1111 Eduardo Garcia By Bradford — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1111 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
• Arambula — author (person)
• Baker — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — author (person)
• Eggman — author (person)
• Maienschein — author (person)
• Quirk-Silva — author (person)
• Reyes — author (person)
• Santiago — author (person)
• Steinorth — author (person)
• Waldron — principal coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2017-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on J., E.D., & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. referral-committee
• 2017-05-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-03 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1835.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2855.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D., & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-14 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3371.)
• 2017-09-14 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 14). committee-passage
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3502.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 824, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b220d78-b04e-462e-8c15-9f1926b597ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).