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Bill	California Religious Freedom Act: state agencies: disclosure of religious affiliation information.	Existing law prohibits a state agency from including a question regarding an applicant's race, sex, marital status, or religion in any application form for employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 31	California SB 31 (20172018)	bill	California Religious Freedom Act: state agencies: disclosure of religious affiliation information.	enacted	Lara	8	31	7	2016-12-05	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/58ddbf6e-b7bb-4db2-b56b-ca094eee3f3d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB31	5b4fa713034368dd0cb57e4c119d18cb95944a23e8ea9cb1d15c27a692b7ea8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 31 (20172018) — California Religious Freedom Act: state agencies: disclosure of religious affiliation information.

Existing law prohibits a state agency from including a question regarding an applicant's race, sex, marital status, or religion in any application form for employment.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB31 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB31 Lara et al. Urgency Clause — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB31 Lara et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 31 Lara Third Reading Urgency By CHIU — 76–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Set for hearing January 31.
• 2017-01-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 130.) (January 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-02-27 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
• 2017-03-01 Set for hearing March 6.
• 2017-03-02 March 6 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-03 Set for hearing March 13.
• 2017-03-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 348.) (March 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-03-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-27 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-03-27 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-03-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Published March 28 at 4 a.m.
• 2017-04-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 581.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 13). 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 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 3479.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3000.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 826, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58ddbf6e-b7bb-4db2-b56b-ca094eee3f3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).