republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-520.md

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Bill	Employment: public entities.	Existing law establishes in the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 520	California AB 520 (20232024)	bill	Employment public entities	enacted	Santiago	8	26	8	2023-02-07	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/07ceeddc-7460-462c-b3aa-5ad11967c6db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB520	361e4415cad6662b91b467cc3d5669fbd34ff6074a379fc74811584d2cb3c721	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 520 (20232024) — Employment: public entities.

Existing law establishes in the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to provide for a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB520 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 520 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 66–13 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB520 Santiago By Becker — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 520 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 66–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 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
• 2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 13. Page 2124.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-14 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 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
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 2621.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 13. Page 3373.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 656, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07ceeddc-7460-462c-b3aa-5ad11967c6db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).