republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-450.md

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Bill	Employment regulation: immigration worksite enforcement actions.	Existing law prohibits an employer or other person or entity from engaging in, or to directing another person or entity to engage in, unfair immigration-related practices against a person for exercising specified rights. Existing law defines unfair immigration-related practices for these purposes. Existing law grants the Labor Commissioner access to places of labor and authorizes the commissioner to conduct investigations and prosecute actions in relation to the prescribed duties of the office. Existing law creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, moneys in which, upon appropriation by the Legislature, are available to support the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 450	California AB 450 (20172018)	bill	Employment regulation: immigration worksite enforcement actions.	enacted	Chiu	11	36	4	2017-02-13	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/ccf97a3d-b998-405c-a9bf-c3d00019ddad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB450	d256f9bcbc0d2173a1cf90a071f90f93ab22ef3ee2ba98bb94ec0bbbac2e89f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 450 (20172018) — Employment regulation: immigration worksite enforcement actions.

Existing law prohibits an employer or other person or entity from engaging in, or to directing another person or entity to engage in, unfair immigration-related practices against a person for exercising specified rights. Existing law defines unfair immigration-related practices for these purposes. Existing law grants the Labor Commissioner access to places of labor and authorizes the commissioner to conduct investigations and prosecute actions in relation to the prescribed duties of the office. Existing law creates the Labor Enforcement and Compliance Fund, moneys in which, upon appropriation by the Legislature, are available to support the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/05/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB450 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 450 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–22 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB450 Chiu et al. By Lara — 27–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-03-23 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-17 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-01 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 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 1999.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2757.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 22. Page 3340.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 492, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccf97a3d-b998-405c-a9bf-c3d00019ddad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).