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Bill	Occupational safety and health: hazards.	Existing law prohibits an employee from being laid off or discharged for refusing to perform work in violation of prescribed safety standards, where the violation would create a real and apparent hazard to the employee or fellow employees. Existing law creates a cause of action for wages for the time an employee laid off or discharged for such a refusal is without work as a result. Existing law defines the term "employment" for these and other purposes to exclude household domestic service.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2658	California AB 2658 (20192020)	bill	Occupational safety and health: hazards.	enacted	Burke	8	27	8	2020-02-20	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/13162868-c7c2-466d-8d43-d2d47e9a0da4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2658	be5369681874b9973725b8529c384dc15913384cbcec6ddd3cb6267522931854	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2658 (20192020) — Occupational safety and health: hazards.

Existing law prohibits an employee from being laid off or discharged for refusing to perform work in violation of prescribed safety standards, where the violation would create a real and apparent hazard to the employee or fellow employees. Existing law creates a cause of action for wages for the time an employee laid off or discharged for such a refusal is without work as a result. Existing law defines the term "employment" for these and other purposes to exclude household domestic service.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/11/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/16/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2658 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2658 Burke Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2658 Burke By Mitchell — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 2658 Burke Assembly Third Reading — 72–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2020-03-12 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-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 7. Noes 0.) (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: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 4770.) 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
• 2020-07-16 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
• 2020-08-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 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 8.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5428.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-15 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 288, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/13162868-c7c2-466d-8d43-d2d47e9a0da4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).