republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-396.md

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Bill	Employment: gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.	The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. FEHA requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position and once every 2 years, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 396	California SB 396 (20172018)	bill	Employment: gender identity gender expression and sexual orientation.	enacted	Lara	8	41	12	2017-02-15	2017-10-15	openstates	ocd-bill/21bef422-6c0b-41fc-bdd8-0a05d2299d83	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB396	b5e6fd8c0eeef414aca4c8e5bf0bb2451b3119ea6631f8aedb752fe40aa41e17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 396 (20172018) — Employment: gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. FEHA requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position and once every 2 years, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/31/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/15/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB396 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 396 Lara Senate Third Reading By THURMOND — 58–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• SB 396 Lara Senate Third Reading By THURMOND Amend By THURMOND Set #1 — 53–20 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB396 Lara et al. Concurrence — 28–8 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 10–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 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
• 2017-04-06 Re-referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2017-04-18 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 782.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 886.) (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.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 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 1184.) (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 29. Noes 10. Page 1277.) 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 Coms. on HIGHER ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 46. Noes 18. Page 2425.)
• 2017-07-03 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 53. Noes 20. Page 2849.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2017-09-15 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2952.) Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-09-15 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 3026.) committee-passage
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2997.) 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 858, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21bef422-6c0b-41fc-bdd8-0a05d2299d83. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).