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Bill	Discrimination in employment: use of cannabis.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status. The act prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2188	California AB 2188 (20212022)	bill	Discrimination in employment: use of cannabis.	enacted	Quirk	8	27	10	2022-02-15	2022-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/e7dbb595-7060-472c-b397-085adddca54c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2188	969b957d2c17a82592d06711952246bb1a4b833e7cfc35fd60ea4e07e567d81d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2188 (20212022) — Discrimination in employment: use of cannabis.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status. The act prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/25/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2188 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 2188 Quirk Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2188 Quirk Assembly Third Reading — 42–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2188 Quirk et al. By Wiener — 28–11 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — 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.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 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
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 23.) 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
• 2022-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (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 1.) (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
• 2022-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 5209.). 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 49. Noes 18.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 392, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7dbb595-7060-472c-b397-085adddca54c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).