Construction industry: discrimination and harassment prevention.
(1) The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing administers these provisions. Existing law, by January 1, 2021, requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires new nonsupervisory employees to be provided training within 6 months of hire and new supervisory employees to be provided training within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position. Existing law establishes a separate timeline for seasonal, temporary, or other employees that are hired to work for less than 6 months that requires an employer, beginning January 1, 2020, to provide the training within 30 days after the hire date or within 100 hours worked, whichever occurs first.
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SB 530
California SB 530 (20192020)
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Construction industry: discrimination and harassment prevention.
California SB 530 (20192020) — Construction industry: discrimination and harassment prevention.
(1) The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Under existing law, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing administers these provisions. Existing law, by January 1, 2021, requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires new nonsupervisory employees to be provided training within 6 months of hire and new supervisory employees to be provided training within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position. Existing law establishes a separate timeline for seasonal, temporary, or other employees that are hired to work for less than 6 months that requires an employer, beginning January 1, 2020, to provide the training within 30 days after the hire date or within 100 hours worked, whichever occurs first.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent SB530 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Unfinished Business SB530 Galgiani et al. Concurrence — 33–7 (pass) · upper
SB 530 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — 72–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Galgiani — primary (person)
Carrillo — coauthor (person)
Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2019-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
2019-04-02 Set for hearing April 10.
2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 654.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
2019-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1102.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1277.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
2019-06-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 5. Page 3338.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2019-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 7. Page 2894.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2019-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 722, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1037480-8f4c-4650-b224-b945e0565130. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).