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Bill	State employees: under-represented groups.	Existing law, the State Civil Services Act, requires each state agency to establish an equal opportunity plan which includes, at a minimum, identifying the areas of significant underutilization of specific groups based on race, ethnicity, and gender, within each department and job category level, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 316	California AB 316 (20212022)	bill	State employees: under-represented groups.	enacted	Cooper	6	32	8	2021-01-25	2022-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/4544672e-1164-4020-b08a-128fb9ba78a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB316	ee0405ea864e01d6b6e7e86f73a33839c221d5691272b80460c1e48b07e43a30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 316 (20212022) — State employees: under-represented groups.

Existing law, the State Civil Services Act, requires each state agency to establish an equal opportunity plan which includes, at a minimum, identifying the areas of significant underutilization of specific groups based on race, ethnicity, and gender, within each department and job category level, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 01/25/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/13/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB316 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB316 Cooper By Rubio — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 316 Cooper Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 316 Cooper Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooper — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-01-26 From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2021-03-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1725.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 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 with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-23 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 From special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-08 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Rubio.
• 2022-05-31 From inactive file.
• 2022-05-31 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4941.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-23 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6056.)
• 2022-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6060.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 312, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4544672e-1164-4020-b08a-128fb9ba78a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).