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Bill	Occupational safety and health: postings: spoken languages.	Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Existing law makes certain violations of the act a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2068	California AB 2068 (20212022)	bill	Occupational safety and health: postings: spoken languages.	enacted	Haney	8	37	10	2022-02-14	2022-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/6e8b9183-8d30-492d-86b3-62470a934c4e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2068	9edfced32ca9a9ff9f2fe3ec93418a5db36d5e35cf29e0b5934ce7901e9343b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2068 (20212022) — Occupational safety and health: postings: spoken languages.

Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Existing law makes certain violations of the act a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/10/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2068 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2068 Haney et al. By Laird — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2068 Haney Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2068 Haney Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Haney — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
• Newman — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2022-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-04-25 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4938.)
• 2022-04-25 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4938.)
• 2022-04-25 (pending re-refer to Com. on L. GOV.)
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-10 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
• 2022-05-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4739.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2022-06-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 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 8. Page 5055.). 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 Measure version as amended on August 11 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). committee-passage
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 485, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e8b9183-8d30-492d-86b3-62470a934c4e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).