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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Employment discrimination: limitation of actions."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 9"
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citation: "California AB 9 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Employment discrimination: limitation of actions."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2018-12-03"
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last_action: "2019-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/666c0790-9da3-44c6-afde-20b4c706e900"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9"
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source_hash: "88d8641425844dffc0dec295a01ce288f2c1e5de45c286505c59d3133d451638"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 9 (20192020) — Employment discrimination: limitation of actions.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9&version=20190AB999INT)
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2. **03/21/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9&version=20190AB998AMD)
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3. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9&version=20190AB997AMD)
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4. **10/10/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9&version=20190AB995CHP)
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5. **AB9** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9)
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6. **09/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB9&version=20190AB996ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **13–2** (pass) · lower
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- AB 9 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–5** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 9 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **53–5** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB9 Reyes et al. By Gonzalez — **30–7** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Reyes — primary (person)
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- Berman — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — coauthor (person)
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- Chiu — coauthor (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- Friedman — author (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- Lackey — coauthor (person)
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- McCarty — coauthor (person)
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- Mullin — coauthor (person)
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- Waldron — author (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
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- **2019-01-17** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2019-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 5. Page 1863.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2019-06-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2525.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 5. Page 3116.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2019-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709, Statutes of 2019.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/666c0790-9da3-44c6-afde-20b4c706e900`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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