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Bill	Employees: bereavement leave.	Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, which is a part of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1949	California AB 1949 (20212022)	bill	Employees: bereavement leave.	enacted	Low	7	27	10	2022-02-10	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/0526b6df-8c1b-4fbc-924f-ea88b2fdc7db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1949	ea697fe0669d124761ebe65d9b2c23708f55ead81b968ed76d4b6c81a3d8bd32	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1949 (20212022) — Employees: bereavement leave.

Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, which is a part of the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1949 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1949 Low Assembly Third Reading — 59–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1949 Low By Caballero — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1949 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–9 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2022-02-18 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 9.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 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
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5179.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 9.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-12 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 767, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0526b6df-8c1b-4fbc-924f-ea88b2fdc7db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).