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Bill	Public transit employer-employee relations: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.	Existing law creates the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District with various powers and duties and establishes a board of directors as the legislative body of the district. Existing law requires the board, upon a majority of district employees in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicating a desire to be represented by a labor organization, to bargain with the accredited representative of those employees. Existing law requires the board and employees to bargain in good faith and make all reasonable efforts to reach agreement on the terms of a written contract governing wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, and grievance procedures.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2850	California AB 2850 (20192020)	bill	Public transit employer-employee relations: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.	enacted	Low	7	26	8	2020-02-21	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/8baebf74-3ec1-4440-af5e-38b234ba637d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2850	7496795d54161406a493c9e61a4031df8669813bc7b9fc1e86b8c7d42df96686	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2850 (20192020) — Public transit employer-employee relations: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.

Existing law creates the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District with various powers and duties and establishes a board of directors as the legislative body of the district. Existing law requires the board, upon a majority of district employees in a unit appropriate for collective bargaining indicating a desire to be represented by a labor organization, to bargain with the accredited representative of those employees. Existing law requires the board and employees to bargain in good faith and make all reasonable efforts to reach agreement on the terms of a written contract governing wages, salaries, hours, working conditions, and grievance procedures.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/28/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2850 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2850 Low Assembly Third Reading — 59–17 (pass) · lower
• AB 2850 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–12 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2850 Low By Beall — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-04-24 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E. & R. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-05-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 5). 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 13. Noes 4.) (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 59. Noes 17. Page 4772.) 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
• 2020-08-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. 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: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 4402.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 12. Page 5355.). 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 293, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8baebf74-3ec1-4440-af5e-38b234ba637d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).