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Bill	Workers' compensation: definition of employee.	Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, within the Department of Industrial Relations, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 189	California SB 189 (20172018)	bill	Workers' compensation: definition of employee.	enacted	Bradford	9	30	6	2017-01-26	2017-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/813581a6-6328-48a9-9536-cb4fc778b35a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB189	f6cb04b765cb9093a1ede17c09ccac72f325a04b40089b7d0c419d1dbf0e9330	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 189 (20172018) — Workers' compensation: definition of employee.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, within the Department of Industrial Relations, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment.

Version chain

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

1. 01/26/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/13/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB189 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent Calendar SB189 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 189 Bradford Senate Third Reading By DALY — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-01-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 26.
• 2017-02-09 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 853.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2017-05-03 May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1134.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2017-07-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 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 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3156.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2904.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-21 (Corrected September 19).
• 2017-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 770, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/813581a6-6328-48a9-9536-cb4fc778b35a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).