republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1867.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Small employer family leave mediation: handwashing: supplemental paid sick leave."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , establishes the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Under FEHA, the DFEH has specified powers, including the power to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute certain complaints. The Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, which is a part of FEHA, 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 for family care and medical leave, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1867"
citation: "California AB 1867 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Small employer family leave mediation: handwashing: supplemental paid sick leave."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e515e334-f5a1-4e43-bd51-98cb57ece246"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867"
source_hash: "9bae1e2dd91339d571bff3ae9c81eddd81522b4b77271673f551e0837a5c78a5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1867 (20192020) — Small employer family leave mediation: handwashing: supplemental paid sick leave.

(1) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , establishes the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Under FEHA, the DFEH has specified powers, including the power to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute certain complaints. The Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, which is a part of FEHA, 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 for family care and medical leave, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/07/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867&version=20190AB186799INT)
2. **02/25/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867&version=20190AB186798AMD)
3. **08/28/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867&version=20190AB186797AMD)
4. **09/09/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867&version=20190AB186795CHP)
5. **AB1867** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867)
6. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1867&version=20190AB186796ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1867 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **13–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 1867 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — **60–14** (pass) · lower
- AB 1867 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **59–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-02-26** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 4273.)
- **2020-03-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2020-03-09** Ordered to second reading.
- **2020-03-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 4864.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 5457.)
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 15. Page 5458.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 45, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e515e334-f5a1-4e43-bd51-98cb57ece246`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).