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Bill	Wage theft: grand theft.	Existing law regulates the payment of wages and benefits in the state. Existing law makes violation of specified wage and gratuity provisions a misdemeanor and provides for civil penalties and remedies for the recovery of wages.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1003	California AB 1003 (20212022)	bill	Wage theft: grand theft.	enacted	Lorena Gonzalez	7	27	9	2021-02-18	2021-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/0d65042f-2130-453c-be7f-5c769d9510c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1003	3aafe241b8221d3a76e03c194e8f346f33cf82adb03fcb74930b41c4b3454455	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1003 (20212022) — Wage theft: grand theft.

Existing law regulates the payment of wages and benefits in the state. Existing law makes violation of specified wage and gratuity provisions a misdemeanor and provides for civil penalties and remedies for the recovery of wages.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1003 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1003 Lorena Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1003 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1003 Lorena Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lorena Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1612.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1721.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2490.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3011.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 325, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0d65042f-2130-453c-be7f-5c769d9510c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).