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Bill	Personal protective equipment: health care employees.	Existing law requires an employer to furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees and to establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, as prescribed. Regulations enacted by the Department of Industrial Relations regulate the nature and use personal protective equipment and regulate practices in health care facilities connected with aerosol transmissible diseases.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2537	California AB 2537 (20192020)	bill	Personal protective equipment: health care employees.	enacted	Rodriguez	9	28	8	2020-02-19	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ea614856-0015-475b-93a5-0593e9d3d5be	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2537	5c110d6c0eed59a84ce0695eb32ed797f5c5ee45838765a9bb909cc7562a857a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2537 (20192020) — Personal protective equipment: health care employees.

Existing law requires an employer to furnish employment and a place of employment that is safe and healthful for the employees and to establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, as prescribed. Regulations enacted by the Department of Industrial Relations regulate the nature and use personal protective equipment and regulate practices in health care facilities connected with aerosol transmissible diseases.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/12/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2537 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2537 Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 57–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2537 Rodriguez et al. By Hertzberg — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2537 Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2020-03-12 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2020-05-12 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
• 2020-05-13 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2020-05-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. 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 13. Noes 3.) (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
• 2020-06-08 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 4700.)
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 4718.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 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 L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (August 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (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. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 1. Page 5386.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 313, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea614856-0015-475b-93a5-0593e9d3d5be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).