republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-201.md

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Bill	Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees.	(1) Existing law, known as the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, contains provisions relating to employer-employee relations between the state and the employees of state institutions of higher education, including the University of California and the California State University, as well as the Hastings College of the Law. These provisions assign major responsibilities for implementation to the Public Employment Relations Board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 201	California SB 201 (20172018)	bill	Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees.	enacted	Skinner	5	24	5	2017-01-31	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/a8d1143b-4159-498b-a1d3-acc78605b71b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB201	b71cb00543ecd2b271d438923da5485ee04c7e79d5aae3404f40b4edd219476b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 201 (20172018) — Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act: employees.

(1) Existing law, known as the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, contains provisions relating to employer-employee relations between the state and the employees of state institutions of higher education, including the University of California and the California State University, as well as the Hastings College of the Law. These provisions assign major responsibilities for implementation to the Public Employment Relations Board.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB201 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/11/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB201 Skinner et al. — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• SB 201 Skinner Senate Third Reading By AGUIAR-CURRY — 52–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
• 2017-02-09 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2017-03-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-17 Set for hearing March 27.
• 2017-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2017-04-17 April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1179.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1266.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 June 28 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 3043.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2017-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 854, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a8d1143b-4159-498b-a1d3-acc78605b71b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).