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Bill	Unemployment insurance: work sharing plans.	Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law deems an employee unemployed in any week if the employee works less than their usual weekly hours of work for the employee's regular employer as the result of the employer's participation in a work sharing plan that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the Director of Employment Development, pursuant to which the employer, in lieu of layoff, reduces employment and stabilizes the workforce. Existing law requires an employer who wishes to participate in the work sharing program to submit to the director a signed, written work sharing plan application form that meets specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1731	California AB 1731 (20192020)	bill	Unemployment insurance: work sharing plans.	enacted	Boerner Horvath	11	46	12	2019-02-22	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/ec8b6093-1c9c-427f-ac44-b2dd26f533b9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1731	454fc46b15c7365dba8da2376d3602e346171f582e2147f1d8359d07bfc03944	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1731 (20192020) — Unemployment insurance: work sharing plans.

Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law deems an employee unemployed in any week if the employee works less than their usual weekly hours of work for the employee's regular employer as the result of the employer's participation in a work sharing plan that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the Director of Employment Development, pursuant to which the employer, in lieu of layoff, reduces employment and stabilizes the workforce. Existing law requires an employer who wishes to participate in the work sharing program to submit to the director a signed, written work sharing plan application form that meets specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/23/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1731 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1731 Boerner Horvath Assembly Third Reading — 42–23 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1731 BOERNER HORVATH Concurrence - Urgency Added — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1731 Boerner Horvath By Hertzberg Urgency Clause — 30–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Boerner Horvath — 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
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1760.)
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 23. Page 1910.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on JUD., N.R. & W. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2020-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2020-06-30 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-07-02 Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-07-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (August 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on INS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-31 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5456.)
• 2020-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2020-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 5498.)
• 2020-09-01 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5512.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 209, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec8b6093-1c9c-427f-ac44-b2dd26f533b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).