republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-854.md

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Bill	Unemployment insurance.	Existing law, the Unemployment Insurance Code, governs unemployment insurance in the state, including, among other things, the administration of unemployment and disability compensation. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of the code.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 854	California SB 854 (20252026)	bill	Unemploymentinsurance	enacted	Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement	5	20	5	2025-03-04	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/380b1fde-099b-44e0-a00d-8b8e2e1962f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB854	1ee6c2ac7c10527c0c6e3bb0bbf2e2975a15d6650360a02ff7d449036ba8a2d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 854 (20252026) — Unemployment insurance.

Existing law, the Unemployment Insurance Code, governs unemployment insurance in the state, including, among other things, the administration of unemployment and disability compensation. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of the code.

Version chain

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

1. 03/04/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB854 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 854 Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd SB854 L., P.E. & R. (Smallwood-Cuevas) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-04 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-05 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 4.
• 2025-03-12 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 740.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-28 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 984.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-19 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2777.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-28 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 240, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/380b1fde-099b-44e0-a00d-8b8e2e1962f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).