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Bill	Employment: leave.	(1) Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for a California public employer or an employer with 5 or more employees to refuse to grant a request from an employee who meets specified requirements to take up to a total of 12 workweeks in any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1041	California AB 1041 (20212022)	bill	Employment: leave.	enacted	Wicks	8	34	8	2021-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ad74f02f-303a-48cc-a9d9-c8fbcd575c0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041	9654fb31a0cdb8863d2191f1fb030cd216020234b11a0476626c110bf290988a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1041 (20212022) — Employment: leave.

(1) Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for a California public employer or an employer with 5 or more employees to refuse to grant a request from an employee who meets specified requirements to take up to a total of 12 workweeks in any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as defined.

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. 08/08/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1041 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1041 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1041 Wicks et al. By Laird — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• AB 1041 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 53–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — 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 Coms. on L. & E. and INS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 1683.) 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 Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-05 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-09 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wiener.
• 2022-08-08 From inactive file.
• 2022-08-08 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-08-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 5102.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad74f02f-303a-48cc-a9d9-c8fbcd575c0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).