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Bill	Sacramento Regional Transit District: employee relations.	Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act. Existing law includes within PERB's jurisdiction the resolution of disputes alleging violation of rules and regulations adopted by a public agency, as defined, concerning unit determinations, representations, recognition, and elections, as specified. Existing law authorizes PERB to adopt rules and regulations to carry out its purposes, as provided. Existing law does not apply the above provisions to employees of specified transit agencies, including the Sacramento Regional Transit District, among others.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 598	California SB 598 (20212022)	bill	Sacramento Regional Transit District: employee relations.	enacted	Pan	7	31	10	2021-02-18	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/0e4b4482-6fcf-4ec9-b750-9e7216f172c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB598	00fbe0f4ae3f77b1b3dab19a6ecdcd817fe5c69b499609889ae523a4508ce2df	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 598 (20212022) — Sacramento Regional Transit District: employee relations.

Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in state government as a means of resolving disputes and enforcing the statutory duties and rights of specified public employers and employees under various acts regulating collective bargaining, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act. Existing law includes within PERB's jurisdiction the resolution of disputes alleging violation of rules and regulations adopted by a public agency, as defined, concerning unit determinations, representations, recognition, and elections, as specified. Existing law authorizes PERB to adopt rules and regulations to carry out its purposes, as provided. Existing law does not apply the above provisions to employees of specified transit agencies, including the Sacramento Regional Transit District, among others.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB598 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• SB 598 Pan Senate Third Reading By McCarty — 67–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB598 Pan et al. — 31–9 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB598 Pan et al. Concurrence — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (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.
• 2021-04-12 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
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 860.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 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 1197.) (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 31. Noes 9. Page 1333.) 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 P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 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
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 6. Page 2890.) 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 29. Noes 9. Page 2549.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 492, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0e4b4482-6fcf-4ec9-b750-9e7216f172c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).