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Bill	Disability compensation: paid family leave: application in non-English languages.	The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requires a state agency that finds specific factors to exist to distribute certain written materials in the appropriate non-English language through its statewide and local offices or facilities to non-English-speaking persons, or, as an alternative, to furnish translation aids, translation guides, or provide assistance, through use of a qualified bilingual person, at its statewide and local offices or facilities in completing English forms or questionnaires and in understanding English forms, letters, or notices.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 406	California AB 406 (20192020)	bill	Disability compensation: paid family leave: application in non-English languages.	enacted	Limón	7	27	8	2019-02-07	2019-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ef8e2f97-a1cf-489b-8491-587f06e880cd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB406	4257e888348334b72e5ac7dcd89a2abe2dd025a5c3728dff3f53ec3c6e15a063	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 406 (20192020) — Disability compensation: paid family leave: application in non-English languages.

The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requires a state agency that finds specific factors to exist to distribute certain written materials in the appropriate non-English language through its statewide and local offices or facilities to non-English-speaking persons, or, as an alternative, to furnish translation aids, translation guides, or provide assistance, through use of a qualified bilingual person, at its statewide and local offices or facilities in completing English forms or questionnaires and in understanding English forms, letters, or notices.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB406 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 406 Limón Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 406 Limón Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB406 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — author (person)
• Jackson — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 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 77. Noes 0. Page 1866.) 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: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-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
• 2019-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2711.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3295.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef8e2f97-a1cf-489b-8491-587f06e880cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).