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Bill	Joint and several liability of port drayage motor carrier customers: health and safety violations: prior offenders: liability owed to the state.	Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to post on its internet website a list of port drayage motor carriers with unsatisfied court judgments, tax assessments, tax liens, or any order, decision, or award finding that the port drayage motor carrier has engaged in illegal conduct including failure to pay wages, imposing unlawful expenses on employees, and other labor violations. Existing law prohibits the division from placing the information on the internet website until the period for all judicial appeals has expired. Existing law requires the division to remove a posting within 15 business days after the division determines there has been payment or settlement of the unsatisfied judgment, as specified. Existing law, except as specified, imposes joint and several liability on the port drayage motor carrier and any customer that obtained port drayage services after the date the port drayage motor carrier appeared on the division's list for all civil legal responsibility and liability owed to a port drayage driver, including unpaid wages, unreimbursed expenses, and damages and penalties that are due, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 338	California SB 338 (20212022)	bill	Joint and several liability of port drayage motor carrier customers: health and safety violations: prior offenders: liability owed to the state.	enacted	Gonzalez	10	37	10	2021-02-08	2021-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/5a2c22f6-1bf3-43fa-9877-559e091a0cbe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB338	d11af131e3191995598c0013616f3f3294b148a5539cd8cae4051de496d08b31	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 338 (20212022) — Joint and several liability of port drayage motor carrier customers: health and safety violations: prior offenders: liability owed to the state.

Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to post on its internet website a list of port drayage motor carriers with unsatisfied court judgments, tax assessments, tax liens, or any order, decision, or award finding that the port drayage motor carrier has engaged in illegal conduct including failure to pay wages, imposing unlawful expenses on employees, and other labor violations. Existing law prohibits the division from placing the information on the internet website until the period for all judicial appeals has expired. Existing law requires the division to remove a posting within 15 business days after the division determines there has been payment or settlement of the unsatisfied judgment, as specified. Existing law, except as specified, imposes joint and several liability on the port drayage motor carrier and any customer that obtained port drayage services after the date the port drayage motor carrier appeared on the division's list for all civil legal responsibility and liability owed to a port drayage driver, including unpaid wages, unreimbursed expenses, and damages and penalties that are due, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB338 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 338 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — 60–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB338 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11.
• 2021-02-17 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 671.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 859.) (April 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1188.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1330.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 18. Page 2915.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 2556.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 333, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5a2c22f6-1bf3-43fa-9877-559e091a0cbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).