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Bill	Occupational safety: workplace violence: restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan.	Existing law authorizes any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 553	California SB 553 (20232024)	bill	Occupational safety restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan workplace violence	enacted	Cortese	12	39	10	2023-02-15	2023-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7dbf3ef6-79af-4cf3-8d58-b948e6bdf342	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB553	e02482cc5fac4b975f79f18fad5af4d316837e260cfc45361da31c5d69c6efa8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 553 (20232024) — Occupational safety: workplace violence: restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan.

Existing law authorizes any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/17/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/22/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/10/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/30/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. SB553 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB553 Cortese et al. Concurrence — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• SB 553 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Ortega — 55–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2023-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 712.) (April 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2023-04-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 894.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 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 1175.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1401.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3010.)
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 17. Page 3202.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2615.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 289, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7dbf3ef6-79af-4cf3-8d58-b948e6bdf342. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).