republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-224.md

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Bill	Personal rights: civil liability and enforcement.	Existing law establishes liability for sexual harassment when the plaintiff proves specified elements, including, among other things, that there is a business, service, or professional relationship between the plaintiff and defendant and there is an inability by the plaintiff to easily terminate the relationship. Existing law states that a relationship may exist between a plaintiff and certain persons, including an attorney, holder of a master's degree in social work, real estate agent, and real estate appraiser.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 224	California SB 224 (20172018)	bill	Personal rights: civil liability and enforcement.	enacted	Jackson	9	33	1	2017-02-02	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/861e927a-6279-4edd-8e7b-7116f2cea03a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB224	f5d9f22eceaca0dc7532e89a08f052e39668ec9e5efe20add7c21a1add0be8db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 224 (20172018) — Personal rights: civil liability and enforcement.

Existing law establishes liability for sexual harassment when the plaintiff proves specified elements, including, among other things, that there is a business, service, or professional relationship between the plaintiff and defendant and there is an inability by the plaintiff to easily terminate the relationship. Existing law states that a relationship may exist between a plaintiff and certain persons, including an attorney, holder of a master's degree in social work, real estate agent, and real estate appraiser.

Version chain

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

1. 02/02/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB224 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 224 Jackson Senate Third Reading By REYES — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jackson — primary (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-02 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-03 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 783.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2017-05-01 May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 May 25 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
• 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
• 2017-08-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-08-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-01-05 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2018-01-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4020.) (January 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-01-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4067.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-07-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6707.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6060.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 951, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/861e927a-6279-4edd-8e7b-7116f2cea03a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).