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Bill	Employment discrimination: cannabis use.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2024, makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person because of the person's use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 700	California SB 700 (20232024)	bill	Employment discrimination cannabis use	enacted	Bradford	7	30	10	2023-02-16	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/7688cbfc-b24b-4cb7-92b2-7644def26273	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB700	d7b9ee09f152ddb69d0583e98a7718aae8f99f1510a5b3d369b571647f9053ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 700 (20232024) — Employment discrimination: cannabis use.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2024, makes it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against a person in hiring, termination, or any term or condition of employment, or otherwise penalize a person because of the person's use of cannabis off the job and away from the workplace, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB700 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 700 Bradford Senate Third Reading By Kalra — 59–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB700 Bradford Concurrence — 30–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-04-03 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 687.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-21 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 898.) (April 26). 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 1180.) (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 9. Page 1353.) 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
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (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
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 8. Page 3466.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2817.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 408, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7688cbfc-b24b-4cb7-92b2-7644def26273. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).