republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1296.md

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Bill	Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force.	Existing law, until January 1, 2019, established the Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team as a pilot program consisting of a team of agencies charged with specified duties that included developing a plan to document, review, and evaluate data and complaints, evaluating the benefits of a processing center to receive and analyze data, share complaints, and research leads, and providing agencies with investigative leads to combat criminal tax evasion associated with the underground economy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1296	California AB 1296 (20192020)	bill	Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force.	enacted	Gonzalez	9	32	10	2019-02-22	2019-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c84c1bcb-d2f2-44f8-a6b1-fe458f2e2323	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296	f65d1a50d5559564ffae5d112cca78e764d636a8e15914d44ef60690b6179ddd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1296 (20192020) — Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force.

Existing law, until January 1, 2019, established the Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team as a pilot program consisting of a team of agencies charged with specified duties that included developing a plan to document, review, and evaluate data and complaints, evaluating the benefits of a processing center to receive and analyze data, share complaints, and research leads, and providing agencies with investigative leads to combat criminal tax evasion associated with the underground economy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1296 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/20/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1296 Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1296 Gonzalez By Galgiani — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1296 Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-11 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2079.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2745.)
• 2019-09-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2936.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3584.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c84c1bcb-d2f2-44f8-a6b1-fe458f2e2323. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).