republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-63.md

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Bill	Unlawful employment practice: parental leave.	Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, or California Family Rights Act (CFRA) , makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) for reason of a child born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent or spouse who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 63	California SB 63 (20172018)	bill	Unlawful employment practice: parental leave.	enacted	Jackson	9	33	10	2016-12-22	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/a9253c40-1901-408a-9c3c-6ee6dc958106	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63	c82ffea239b319c01f32d50a30fdbfc82e7742fd940fb6c8087d1b9591c47be0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 63 (20172018) — Unlawful employment practice: parental leave.

Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, or California Family Rights Act (CFRA) , makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) for reason of a child born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent or spouse who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job.

Version chain

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

1. 12/22/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB63 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB63 Jackson et al. — 25–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB63 Jackson et al. Concurrence — 25–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 63 Jackson Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — 51–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–6 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jackson — primary (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — principal coauthor (person)
• Leyva — principal coauthor (person)
• Limón — principal coauthor (person)
• Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
• Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2016-12-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 26.
• 2017-01-04 Read first time. reading-1
• 2017-01-12 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-09 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 445.) (March 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-03-23 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 625.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2017-04-24 April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 1252.) 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 L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-13 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
• 2017-07-19 July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (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.
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 15. Page 3207.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 2843.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 686, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9253c40-1901-408a-9c3c-6ee6dc958106. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).