republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1690.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personal rights: compensatory relief."
description: "Existing law makes a legislative finding and declaration that all protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except as prohibited by federal law, are available to individuals regardless of immigration status who have applied for employment, or who are or who have been employed, in this state pursuant to provisions in the Civil Code, the Government Code, the Health and Safety Code, and the Labor Code. Existing law, in addition, finds and declares that for the purposes of enforcing state labor, employment, civil rights, and employee housing laws, a person's immigration status is irrelevant to the issue of liability, and no inquiry shall be permitted into a person's immigration status, except when necessary to comply with federal immigration law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1690"
citation: "California AB 1690 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Personal rights: compensatory relief."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-27"
last_action: "2017-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21dd49c3-ec53-44f3-b8a9-7067c397b372"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690"
source_hash: "9da46e61f3f47b2a8a06c5c33179560ed09d07142e9428c18384b8f9d85b1e09"
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 1690 (20172018) — Personal rights: compensatory relief.

Existing law makes a legislative finding and declaration that all protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except as prohibited by federal law, are available to individuals regardless of immigration status who have applied for employment, or who are or who have been employed, in this state pursuant to provisions in the Civil Code, the Government Code, the Health and Safety Code, and the Labor Code. Existing law, in addition, finds and declares that for the purposes of enforcing state labor, employment, civil rights, and employee housing laws, a person's immigration status is irrelevant to the issue of liability, and no inquiry shall be permitted into a person's immigration status, except when necessary to comply with federal immigration law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690&version=20170AB169099INT)
2. **04/06/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690&version=20170AB169098AMD)
3. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690&version=20170AB169097AMD)
4. **07/31/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690&version=20170AB169095CHP)
5. **AB1690** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690)
6. **07/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1690&version=20170AB169096ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1690 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By STONE — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1690 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By STONE — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1690 JUD. (Stone) By Leyva — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-27** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2017-03-16** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 4). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-04-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1136.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1936.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-07-17** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 2567.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-07-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-07-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-31** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21dd49c3-ec53-44f3-b8a9-7067c397b372`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).