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Bill	Legislature: Whistleblower protection and retaliation prevention.	Existing law, the Legislative Employee Whistleblower Protection Act, imposes criminal and civil liability on a Member of the Legislature or legislative employee, as defined, who interferes with, or retaliates against, a legislative employee's exercise of the right to make a protected disclosure, which is defined as a good faith allegation made by a legislative employee to specified entities that a Member of the Legislature or a legislative employee has engaged in, or will engage in, activity that may constitute a violation of law or a violation of a legislative standard of conduct.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 419	California SB 419 (20172018)	bill	Legislature: Whistleblower protection and retaliation prevention.	enacted	Portantino	12	38	3	2017-02-15	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7e1279c9-a1be-4275-b008-2e5b372ba2c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB419	2d8b2592c973ca9ee56c5f694da1621bee8f22591f6dd7f24799e2d924c03924	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 419 (20172018) — Legislature: Whistleblower protection and retaliation prevention.

Existing law, the Legislative Employee Whistleblower Protection Act, imposes criminal and civil liability on a Member of the Legislature or legislative employee, as defined, who interferes with, or retaliates against, a legislative employee's exercise of the right to make a protected disclosure, which is defined as a good faith allegation made by a legislative employee to specified entities that a Member of the Legislature or a legislative employee has engaged in, or will engage in, activity that may constitute a violation of law or a violation of a legislative standard of conduct.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/11/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 01/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/06/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/27/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB419 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/07/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB419 Portantino et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 419 Portantino Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• De León — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Hernandez — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — author (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — 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 Coms. on PUB. S. and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2017-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-13 April 17 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2017-04-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-24 April 24 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) Reconsideration granted. committee-failure
• 2017-12-21 Set for hearing January 8.
• 2018-01-03 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-01-04 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
• 2018-01-05 Set for hearing January 9 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2018-01-08 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4020.) (January 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-01-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-01-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-01-24 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-01-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4126.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-18 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 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
• 2018-08-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6152.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 952, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e1279c9-a1be-4275-b008-2e5b372ba2c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).