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Bill	Labor Commissioner: enforcement: lien on real property.	Existing law vests with the Labor Commissioner the authority to hear employee complaints regarding the payment of wages and other employment-related issues. Existing law imposes various civil penalties for violations of state law, including on employers for failure to pay minimum wage, on successors to judgment debtors, on persons who do not hold a valid state contractor's license and employ workers to perform services for which a license is required, and on persons who violate provisions relating to minor employees. Existing law permits the commissioner to, as an alternative to a judgment lien, create a lien on real property to recover amounts due under final orders in favor of an employee named in the order.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 572	California SB 572 (20212022)	bill	Labor Commissioner: enforcement: lien on real property.	enacted	Hertzberg	6	27	8	2021-02-18	2021-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/15636753-7f18-4f59-8f3e-23d51cf4696c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB572	3926d464ef6c4292481fcaf5a3204770dccedd83e14029351cb65236e014d472	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 572 (20212022) — Labor Commissioner: enforcement: lien on real property.

Existing law vests with the Labor Commissioner the authority to hear employee complaints regarding the payment of wages and other employment-related issues. Existing law imposes various civil penalties for violations of state law, including on employers for failure to pay minimum wage, on successors to judgment debtors, on persons who do not hold a valid state contractor's license and employ workers to perform services for which a license is required, and on persons who violate provisions relating to minor employees. Existing law permits the commissioner to, as an alternative to a judgment lien, create a lien on real property to recover amounts due under final orders in favor of an employee named in the order.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/06/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB572 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB572 Hertzberg Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 572 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Davies — 68–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
• 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.)
• 2021-03-03 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 5. Noes 0. Page 671.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 860.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1057.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-10 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-20 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 6. Page 2566.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2280.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 335, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/15636753-7f18-4f59-8f3e-23d51cf4696c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).