republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-636.md

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Bill	Employers: agricultural employees: required disclosures.	Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee, at the time of hiring, a written notice including specified information in the language that the employer normally uses to communicate employment-related information to the employee. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare a template that includes the information and to make the template available to employers in a manner as determined by the commissioner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 636	California AB 636 (20232024)	bill	Employers agricultural employees required disclosures	enacted	Kalra	5	18	5	2023-02-09	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a4fdf32c-48fd-4f6b-953a-b804a3e12c67	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636	13cc50d4bef44edfaa76fd4924e30e740eb9f575e87d01255a9e5c73275af58b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 636 (20232024) — Employers: agricultural employees: required disclosures.

Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee, at the time of hiring, a written notice including specified information in the language that the employer normally uses to communicate employment-related information to the employee. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare a template that includes the information and to make the template available to employers in a manner as determined by the commissioner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/11/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB636 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 636 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 59–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB636 Kalra By Durazo — 31–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1521.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 5. Page 1589.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-31 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2358.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-05 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 451, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4fdf32c-48fd-4f6b-953a-b804a3e12c67. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).