republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1749.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: off-duty peace officer."
description: "Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires workers' compensation proceedings to commence within one year of specified dates and circumstances, including, among others, the date of injury."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1749"
citation: "California AB 1749 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: off-duty peace officer."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daly"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-03"
last_action: "2018-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1aeebb6-0c3e-4dc5-b641-f43f3c0cb4b5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749"
source_hash: "d3be52e65d23eef5ecdce421ef18d203e34249db150e8ec7ebe47d0e2cca4086"
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 1749 (20172018) — Workers' compensation: off-duty peace officer.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires workers' compensation proceedings to commence within one year of specified dates and circumstances, including, among others, the date of injury.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749&version=20170AB174999INT)
2. **08/08/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749&version=20170AB174998AMD)
3. **08/20/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749&version=20170AB174997AMD)
4. **09/23/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749&version=20170AB174995CHP)
5. **AB1749** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749)
6. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1749&version=20170AB174996ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1749 DALY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1749 DALY Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1749 Daly et al. By Bates — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daly — primary (person)
- Bates — principal coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — principal coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-04** From printer. May be heard in committee February 3.
- **2018-01-16** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 4636.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-25** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5769.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6847.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 707, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1aeebb6-0c3e-4dc5-b641-f43f3c0cb4b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).