republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-119.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "State government."
description: "(1) Existing law, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act, as well as provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act and the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, regulates the labor relations of the state, the courts, and specified local public agencies and their employees. Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board and prescribes its powers and duties in relation to these acts. These acts grant specified public employees of these entities the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their choosing and requires public agency employers, among other things, to meet and confer with representatives of recognized employee organizations and exclusive representatives on terms and conditions of employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 119"
citation: "California AB 119 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State government."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e746afc-2869-4edc-9c93-06b3ecce0766"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119"
source_hash: "73ce1be219b490a96f8ae3ce2769fcccfdbbd391bbe575a13e5c705e710e77db"
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 119 (20172018) — State government.

(1) Existing law, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Trial Court Employment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit Employer-Employee Relations Act, as well as provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act and the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, regulates the labor relations of the state, the courts, and specified local public agencies and their employees. Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board and prescribes its powers and duties in relation to these acts. These acts grant specified public employees of these entities the right to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their choosing and requires public agency employers, among other things, to meet and confer with representatives of recognized employee organizations and exclusive representatives on terms and conditions of employment.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/10/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119&version=20170AB11999INT)
2. **06/12/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119&version=20170AB11998AMD)
3. **06/27/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119&version=20170AB11996CHP)
4. **AB119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119)
5. **06/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB119&version=20170AB11997ENR)

## Votes

- AB 119 TING Assembly Third Reading — **45–25** (pass) · lower
- AB 119 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **54–23** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB119 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **27–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **12–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-11** From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-15** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 1511.)
- **2017-05-15** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2017-05-15** Ordered to second reading.
- **2017-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 25. Page 1602.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1568.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-06-15** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2017-06-15** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 2224.)
- **2017-06-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 23. Page 2226.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2017-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 21, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e746afc-2869-4edc-9c93-06b3ecce0766`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).