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Bill	Employment discrimination: limitation of actions.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes specified employment and housing practices unlawful, including discrimination against or harassment of employees and tenants, among others. Existing law authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice to file a verified complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within one year from the date upon which the unlawful practice occurred, unless otherwise specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 9	California AB 9 (20192020)	bill	Employment discrimination: limitation of actions.	enacted	Reyes	6	23	8	2018-12-03	2019-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/666c0790-9da3-44c6-afde-20b4c706e900	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9	88d8641425844dffc0dec295a01ce288f2c1e5de45c286505c59d3133d451638	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 9 (20192020) — Employment discrimination: limitation of actions.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes specified employment and housing practices unlawful, including discrimination against or harassment of employees and tenants, among others. Existing law authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice to file a verified complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing within one year from the date upon which the unlawful practice occurred, unless otherwise specified.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB9 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 9 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 9 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — 53–5 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB9 Reyes et al. By Gonzalez — 30–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Reyes — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — author (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-01-17 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 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
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (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 53. Noes 5. Page 1863.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2525.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 5. Page 3116.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 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 709, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/666c0790-9da3-44c6-afde-20b4c706e900. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).