republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-647.md

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Bill	Grocery workers.	Existing law, upon change in control of a grocery establishment, requires an incumbent grocery employer, within 15 days after the execution of the transfer document, to provide to the successor grocery employer a list of eligible grocery workers, as specified, and requires the successor grocery employer to maintain a preferential hiring list of eligible grocery workers, to hire from that list for 90 days after the grocery establishment is fully operational and open to the public under the successor grocery employer, and to retain each eligible grocery worker hired for at least 90 days after their commencement date, except as specified. Existing law defines "grocery establishment" for purposes of these provisions as a retail store that is over 15,000 square feet that meets specified requirements, and excludes from the definition a retail store that has ceased operations for 6 months or more.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 647	California AB 647 (20232024)	bill	Grocery workers	enacted	Holden	12	38	10	2023-02-09	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/49226536-9595-40da-a536-7de408e1a4e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB647	baafd4a66f15063d70476c5ca155fb027260027a90604b6370deb25ff4cfb1fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 647 (20232024) — Grocery workers.

Existing law, upon change in control of a grocery establishment, requires an incumbent grocery employer, within 15 days after the execution of the transfer document, to provide to the successor grocery employer a list of eligible grocery workers, as specified, and requires the successor grocery employer to maintain a preferential hiring list of eligible grocery workers, to hire from that list for 90 days after the grocery establishment is fully operational and open to the public under the successor grocery employer, and to retain each eligible grocery worker hired for at least 90 days after their commencement date, except as specified. Existing law defines "grocery establishment" for purposes of these provisions as a retail store that is over 15,000 square feet that meets specified requirements, and excludes from the definition a retail store that has ceased operations for 6 months or more.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/11/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB647 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 647 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–15 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB647 Holden By Smallwood-Cuevas — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• AB 647 Holden Assembly Third Reading — 58–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holden — 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 Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 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
• 2023-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 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
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (March 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 1909.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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
• 2023-09-11 Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2607.)
• 2023-09-11 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2820.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3618.)
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 15. Page 3618.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 452, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/49226536-9595-40da-a536-7de408e1a4e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).