republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-800.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Workplace Readiness Week: work permits.	Existing law deems the month of May to be Labor History Month throughout the public schools, and encourages school districts to commemorate that month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 800	California AB 800 (20232024)	bill	Workplace Readiness Week work permits	enacted	Ortega	7	29	9	2023-02-13	2023-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/189ab669-de9f-4205-9ff6-5a11644935a4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB800	0bfe7c84e4ef96628a691e9e81eaa74d8d8f4339fdf96c94c494742016f81bc3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 800 (20232024) — Workplace Readiness Week: work permits.

Existing law deems the month of May to be Labor History Month throughout the public schools, and encourages school districts to commemorate that month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB800 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 800 Ortega Assembly Third Reading — 64–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB800 Ortega et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas — 29–7 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 800 Ortega Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ortega — primary (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
• Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2023-02-23 Referred to Coms. on ED. and L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (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
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 5. Page 1809.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-07-13 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
• 2023-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-08-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2554.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3228.)
• 2023-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 8. Page 3237.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 271, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/189ab669-de9f-4205-9ff6-5a11644935a4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).