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Bill	Janitorial workers: sexual violence and harassment prevention training.	Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (division) within the Department of Industrial Relations. The division is headed by the Labor Commissioner and the department is headed by the Director of Industrial Relations. Existing law establishes certain protections for janitorial workers, including a requirement that the division establish a biennial in-person sexual violence and harassment prevention training requirement for certain employees and employers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 547	California AB 547 (20192020)	bill	Janitorial workers: sexual violence and harassment prevention training.	enacted	Gonzalez	7	26	6	2019-02-13	2019-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/006a7b0c-c795-4589-b62a-def7c7538329	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB547	0c6dbc2e3cb2bc1e646151f5df5791b1907bf5b2002c178a055370e3d75b41d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 547 (20192020) — Janitorial workers: sexual violence and harassment prevention training.

Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (division) within the Department of Industrial Relations. The division is headed by the Labor Commissioner and the department is headed by the Director of Industrial Relations. Existing law establishes certain protections for janitorial workers, including a requirement that the division establish a biennial in-person sexual violence and harassment prevention training requirement for certain employees and employers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB547 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 547 Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — 57–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 547 Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB547 Gonzalez et al. By Durazo — 32–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

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

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2019-02-25 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-04-11 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
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 13. Page 1627.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 2819.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 6. Page 3507.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 715, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/006a7b0c-c795-4589-b62a-def7c7538329. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).