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Bill	Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas.	Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to agree, in writing, to any term or condition that is known by the employer to be illegal. Existing law provides that certain contractual agreements between an employer and employee are against public policy, including specified provisions affecting an employee's membership in a labor organization and the protection of state law in employment. Under existing law, enforcement of state labor laws is generally committed to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations under the direction of the Labor Commissioner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2602	California AB 2602 (20232024)	bill	Contracts against public policy digital replicas personal or professional services	enacted	Kalra	9	32	10	2024-02-14	2024-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/bdbe7b68-1a21-4113-aa8a-567c9582e25c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2602	3e18a1a3882d6b720afdcd7a2f3308a656ea43c959e433c97af7e7fceec27516	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2602 (20232024) — Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas.

Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to agree, in writing, to any term or condition that is known by the employer to be illegal. Existing law provides that certain contractual agreements between an employer and employee are against public policy, including specified provisions affecting an employee's membership in a labor organization and the protection of state law in employment. Under existing law, enforcement of state labor laws is generally committed to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations under the direction of the Labor Commissioner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/25/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2602 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2602 Kalra et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2602 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2602 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 62–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)
• Bryan — author (person)
• Friedman — author (person)
• Haney — principal coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 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
• 2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 5493.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 259, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bdbe7b68-1a21-4113-aa8a-567c9582e25c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).