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| Bill | Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements. | 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, 2020, requires an 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 1 hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California within 6 months of their assumption of a position. Existing law also specifies that an employer who has provided this training to an employee after January 1, 2019, is not required to provide sexual harassment training and education by the January 1, 2020, deadline. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20192020 | SB 778 | California SB 778 (20192020) |
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California SB 778 (20192020) — Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements.
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, 2020, requires an 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 1 hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California within 6 months of their assumption of a position. Existing law also specifies that an employer who has provided this training to an employee after January 1, 2019, is not required to provide sexual harassment training and education by the January 1, 2020, deadline.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/26/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 04/01/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 04/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 08/30/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- SB778 (committee substitute) — source
- 08/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Consent Calendar SB778 L., P.E. & R. (Hill) Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
- SB 778 L., P.E. & R. Third Reading Urgency By KALRA — 76–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2019-02-26 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction, reading-1 - 2019-02-27 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 29.
- 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee - 2019-04-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee - 2019-04-04 Set for hearing April 10.
- 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 655.) (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 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee - 2019-04-23 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
committee-passage, reading-2 - 2019-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2019-05-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 924.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage, reading-3, reading-1 - 2019-05-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1 - 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on L. & E.
referral-committee - 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee - 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26).
committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage - 2019-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2019-07-05 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bonta.
- 2019-07-05 Ordered to third reading.
- 2019-08-15 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2725.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage, reading-3, reading-1 - 2019-08-15 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- 2019-08-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- 2019-08-30 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2019-08-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 215, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c3199682-be04-4b25-be55-3fe99f0d94bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).