The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (act) prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases. Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Department (department) and prescribes its functions, duties, and powers, including to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute complaints alleging employment discrimination pursuant to specified laws, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the act. Existing law specifies that while it is the intention of the Legislature that the act occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in employment and housing, the act does not limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
The Unruh Civil Rights Act generally prohibits business establishments from discriminating on specified bases. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act (act) prohibits discrimination in housing and employment on specified bases. Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Department (department) and prescribes its functions, duties, and powers, including to receive, investigate, conciliate, mediate, and prosecute complaints alleging employment discrimination pursuant to specified laws, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the act. Existing law specifies that while it is the intention of the Legislature that the act occupy the field of regulation of discrimination in employment and housing, the act does not limit or restrict the application of the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1340 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Kalra — 62–11 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Smallwood-Cuevas — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2024-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-03-21 Withdrawn from committee.
2024-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 16.
2024-04-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-16 Set for hearing April 24 in L., P.E. & R. pending receipt.
2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3636.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3758.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-05-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
2024-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2024-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3980.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 4071.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
2024-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 11. Page 6886.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5733.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2024-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 626, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f51ed05b-e1c6-4563-b40c-e6349c0c484f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).