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Bill	Court interpreters.	The existing Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act divides trial courts into 4 specified regions and establishes regional court interpreter employment relations committees for those regions. Existing law requires each committee to set terms and conditions of employment for court interpreters within the respective region, as specified. Existing law requires that compensation be uniform throughout the region. Existing law, with exceptions, requires that other terms and conditions of employment be uniform throughout the region, but authorizes health and welfare and pension benefits to be the same as those provided to other employees of the same trial court. Existing law authorizes trial courts to set additional local compensation subject to specified conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 792	California AB 792 (20252026)	bill	Courtinterpreters	enacted	Lee	6	22	7	2025-02-18	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/ff6c0e42-dffc-4470-9a28-af6ba250d31a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB792	7b2ee6808ba360e7dbbb121f9c0946b65d0327a2cb5375fea194cf35eea3e013	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 792 (20252026) — Court interpreters.

The existing Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act divides trial courts into 4 specified regions and establishes regional court interpreter employment relations committees for those regions. Existing law requires each committee to set terms and conditions of employment for court interpreters within the respective region, as specified. Existing law requires that compensation be uniform throughout the region. Existing law, with exceptions, requires that other terms and conditions of employment be uniform throughout the region, but authorizes health and welfare and pension benefits to be the same as those provided to other employees of the same trial court. Existing law authorizes trial courts to set additional local compensation subject to specified conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB792 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 792 Lee Assembly Third Reading — 61–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB792 Lee By Durazo — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 792 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 5. Page 1318.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 2446.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 2919.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 277, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff6c0e42-dffc-4470-9a28-af6ba250d31a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).