republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2889.md

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Bill	Local public employee relations: the City of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board and the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission.	Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) . Under existing law, PERB has the power and duty to investigate an unfair practice charge and to determine whether the charge is justified and the appropriate remedy for the unfair practice. Existing law, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, regulates the labor relations of employees and employers of local public agencies. The act requires that a complaint alleging any violation of the act or of any rules and regulations adopted by a public agency pursuant to specified law be processed as an unfair practice charge by PERB. The act provides that the initial determination as to whether the charge of unfair practice is justified and, if so, the appropriate remedy necessary to effectuate the purposes of the act is a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of PERB, except that in an action to recover damages due to an unlawful strike, PERB does not have authority to award strike-preparation expenses as damages and does not have authority to award damages for costs, expenses, or revenue losses incurred during, or as a consequence of, an unlawful strike.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2889	California AB 2889 (20232024)	bill	Local public employee relations the City of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board and the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission	enacted	Zbur	5	21	8	2024-02-15	2024-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/ea3b9e9d-d6ea-4379-947c-5705ee24ad22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2889	22af5f3913bb318418d4a7cb1b5c2645ddf56d89ac346bfee92c336d04ec1239	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2889 (20232024) — Local public employee relations: the City of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board and the Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission.

Existing law establishes the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) . Under existing law, PERB has the power and duty to investigate an unfair practice charge and to determine whether the charge is justified and the appropriate remedy for the unfair practice. Existing law, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, regulates the labor relations of employees and employers of local public agencies. The act requires that a complaint alleging any violation of the act or of any rules and regulations adopted by a public agency pursuant to specified law be processed as an unfair practice charge by PERB. The act provides that the initial determination as to whether the charge of unfair practice is justified and, if so, the appropriate remedy necessary to effectuate the purposes of the act is a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of PERB, except that in an action to recover damages due to an unlawful strike, PERB does not have authority to award strike-preparation expenses as damages and does not have authority to award damages for costs, expenses, or revenue losses incurred during, or as a consequence of, an unlawful strike.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/20/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2889 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2889 Zbur Assembly Third Reading — 59–11 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2889 Zbur By Portantino — 30–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Zbur — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2024-03-04 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 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
• 2024-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (April 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 11. Page 5185.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-12 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 26). 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 9. Noes 1.) (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 4. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5242.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2024-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 315, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ea3b9e9d-d6ea-4379-947c-5705ee24ad22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).