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Bill	H-2A worker housing: state funding: streamlined approval process for agricultural employee housing development.	(1) Existing federal law governing immigration authorizes the importation of an alien as a nonimmigrant agricultural worker, known as an H-2A worker, if specified requirements are met, including that the employer furnish housing, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1783	California AB 1783 (20192020)	bill	H-2A worker housing: state funding: streamlined approval process for agricultural employee housing development.	enacted	Robert Rivas	12	40	10	2019-02-22	2019-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8ec92f66-8e59-4ca7-97e9-beac5e165889	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1783	585b8d610abc02109ea5ba7bc97af6c9bb4869078aa9d0e1165105a0585de909	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1783 (20192020) — H-2A worker housing: state funding: streamlined approval process for agricultural employee housing development.

(1) Existing federal law governing immigration authorizes the importation of an alien as a nonimmigrant agricultural worker, known as an H-2A worker, if specified requirements are met, including that the employer furnish housing, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/04/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/13/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB1783 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1783 Robert Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–16 (pass) · lower
• AB 1783 Robert Rivas Assembly Third Reading — 59–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 14–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1783 Robert Rivas et al. By Wiener — 27–10 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 7–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Robert Rivas — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (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 H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-30 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 11. Page 1971.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Coms. on HOUSING and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (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 5. Noes 2.) (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: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-26 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 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 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2761.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 3427.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 866, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ec92f66-8e59-4ca7-97e9-beac5e165889. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).