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type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural labor relations: elections."
description: "Existing law, the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, grants agricultural employees the right to form and join labor organizations and engage in collective bargaining with respect to wages, terms of employment, and other employment conditions, and authorizes employees to elect exclusive bargaining representatives for these purposes. Existing law creates the Agricultural Labor Relations Board and prescribes its composition, duties, and powers. Existing law authorizes the board to hold hearings and conduct investigations and requires that certain procedures be the exclusive method of redressing unfair labor practices. Under existing law, any person who willfully resists, prevents, or interferes with a member of the board or its agents or agencies in the performance of their duties is guilty of a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2183"
citation: "California AB 2183 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural labor relations: elections."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stone"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84092f66-21e3-485b-84e6-6c3c8c383b08"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183"
source_hash: "d4057063ed86cee1f0db87cbb6ae40ac29eb35b2ab6bb6554ad76761142fb536"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 2183 (20212022) — Agricultural labor relations: elections.
Existing law, the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, grants agricultural employees the right to form and join labor organizations and engage in collective bargaining with respect to wages, terms of employment, and other employment conditions, and authorizes employees to elect exclusive bargaining representatives for these purposes. Existing law creates the Agricultural Labor Relations Board and prescribes its composition, duties, and powers. Existing law authorizes the board to hold hearings and conduct investigations and requires that certain procedures be the exclusive method of redressing unfair labor practices. Under existing law, any person who willfully resists, prevents, or interferes with a member of the board or its agents or agencies in the performance of their duties is guilty of a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183&version=20210AB218399INT)
2. **03/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183&version=20210AB218398AMD)
3. **08/22/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183&version=20210AB218397AMD)
4. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183&version=20210AB218395CHP)
5. **AB2183** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183)
6. **08/30/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2183&version=20210AB218396ENR)
## Votes
- AB 2183 Stone Assembly Third Reading — **4922** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **52** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **81** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **124** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2183 Stone et al. By Durazo — **2610** (pass) · upper
- AB 2183 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **5518** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **40** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Stone — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Becker — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Hueso — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — author (person)
- Kamlager — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Medina — coauthor (person)
- Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — author (person)
- Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2022-03-24** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-25** Measure version as amended on March 24 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 22. Page 4929.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 28). 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: 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`
- **2022-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 5177.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-29** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2022-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2022-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 18.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 673, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84092f66-21e3-485b-84e6-6c3c8c383b08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).