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type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to classified workers."
description: "This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump and the Congress of the United States to approve federal legislation guaranteeing specified rights to classified workers that would, among other things, empower those workers to work in a stable, safe environment and receive livable and competitive wages, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SJR 2"
citation: "California SJR 2 (20252026)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Classifiedworkers'rights"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2025-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6aec637-71d3-481f-9dd0-cc84e43fe567"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2"
source_hash: "fab6002d710201d3f3e218ed7df26520d4705b1cf6405499f5d9b07b7f79327e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SJR 2 (20252026) — Relative to classified workers.
This measure would urge President Donald J. Trump and the Congress of the United States to approve federal legislation guaranteeing specified rights to classified workers that would, among other things, empower those workers to work in a stable, safe environment and receive livable and competitive wages, as provided.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/03/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2&version=20250SJR299INT)
2. **03/27/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2&version=20250SJR298AMD)
3. **07/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2&version=20250SJR296CHP)
4. **SJR2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2)
5. **07/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR2&version=20250SJR297ENR)
## Votes
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **50** (pass) · lower
- SJR 2 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Ortega — **577** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SJR2 Cortese et al. — **297** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted as amended — **41** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Cortese — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — author (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Schultz — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-03-03** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2025-03-26** From committee: Be adopted as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 568.) (March 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 675.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2025-05-05** Referred to Com. on P. E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-03** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-03** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 57. Noes 7. Page 2426.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-07-07** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-10** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
- **2025-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 141, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6aec637-71d3-481f-9dd0-cc84e43fe567`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).