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Bill

Protected employee conduct.

(1) Existing law prohibits a person from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant engaged in protected conduct, as specified. Under existing law, an employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, retaliated against, subjected to adverse action, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of their employment because, among other things, the employee engaged in protected conduct, as specified, the employee shall be entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by those acts of the employer.

us/states/ca

California Legislature

20232024

SB 497

California SB 497 (20232024)

bill

Protected employee conduct

enacted

Smallwood-Cuevas

2023-02-14

2023-10-08

openstates

ocd-bill/1a74a6c0-4d59-4c86-939c-5a9621f63926

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB497

767c5fc33eccb9f95ef22351d17057da7c4544fbc2b57bd48a8507499b11fc42

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

bill

us-ca

California SB 497 (20232024) — Protected employee conduct.

Version chain

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

02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
04/27/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
SB497 (committee substitute) — source
09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading SB497 Smallwood-Cuevas — 29–10 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 10–4 (pass) · lower
SB 497 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Kalra — 52–17 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2023-02-22 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R., JUD., and APPR. referral-committee
2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 12.
2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 712.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 25.
2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 893.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-04-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2023-05-02 Set for hearing May 8.
2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1172.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1346.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2023-06-15 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
2023-06-15 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-08-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (August 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 17. Page 3050.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-09-07 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 612, Statutes of 2023. became-law

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1a74a6c0-4d59-4c86-939c-5a9621f63926. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).

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