republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-203.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational safety and health: Valley Fever."
description: "The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 provides the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations with the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over all employment and places of employment necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards and to protect employees. The act establishes various safety provisions applicable to certain construction activities. A violation of the act under specific circumstances is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 203"
citation: "California AB 203 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupational safety and health: Valley Fever."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/681957d6-a910-44bd-9a07-ae6a4a580188"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203"
source_hash: "9aae3bd4621a5db08f9b70edd218c6c6503ab38c9a173a94bd9a2b4de37681de"
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 203 (20192020) — Occupational safety and health: Valley Fever.

The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 provides the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations with the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over all employment and places of employment necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards and to protect employees. The act establishes various safety provisions applicable to certain construction activities. A violation of the act under specific circumstances is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/14/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203&version=20190AB20399INT)
2. **05/16/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203&version=20190AB20398AMD)
3. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203&version=20190AB20397AMD)
4. **10/10/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203&version=20190AB20395CHP)
5. **AB203** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203)
6. **09/16/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB203&version=20190AB20396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB203 Salas et al. By Galgiani — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 203 Salas Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 203 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-15** From printer. May be heard in committee February 14.
- **2019-02-04** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-16** 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`
- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1921.) `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 Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-01** 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** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2749.). `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 79. Noes 0. Page 3402.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 712, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/681957d6-a910-44bd-9a07-ae6a4a580188`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).