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Bill	Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response.	Existing law, 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. Under the act, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the division is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2043	California AB 2043 (20192020)	bill	Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response.	enacted	Robert Rivas	10	28	8	2020-02-03	2020-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/73cced0b-bd1a-4b87-9669-f3f504ec3b50	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043	73f10c0220d6c32fe1e40ce5afdeafe38125b799ac126ca4d75e5d95a4f53685	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2043 (20192020) — Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response.

Existing law, 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. Under the act, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the division is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/11/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/28/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/28/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2043 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2043 Robert Rivas et al. By Caballero Urgency Clause — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2043 Robert Rivas Concurrence - Urgency Added — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2043 Robert Rivas Assembly Third Reading — 55–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Robert Rivas — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — author (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — author (person)
• Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
• Reyes — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
• 2020-02-14 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2020-03-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2020-05-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (June 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4747.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 15. Page 4829.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-07-01 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-07-08 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
• 2020-07-28 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 0.) (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 0.) (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
• 2020-08-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4432.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5359.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 212, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73cced0b-bd1a-4b87-9669-f3f504ec3b50. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).