republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2055.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unemployment insurance: benefits: eligibility: reserve accounts: domestic partners."
description: "Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law specifies that an individual is disqualified from receiving benefits if the Director of Employment Development finds that he or she left his or her most recent work voluntarily without cause or that he or she has been discharged for misconduct connected with his or her most recent work. Under existing law, an individual may be deemed to have left his or her most recent work with good cause if he or she leaves employment to accompany his or her spouse or domestic partner to a place from which it is impracticable to commute to the employment, and specifies that, for purposes of those provisions, \"spouse\" includes a person to whom marriage is imminent."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2055"
citation: "California AB 2055 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Unemployment insurance: benefits: eligibility: reserve accounts: domestic partners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De La Torre"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/280c3ec2-6cbb-4466-84d8-149fa822d8ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055"
source_hash: "f9ccf089d275537ef287d68cb1713a1fe07c70ecb4de7564112d9f5d2858871a"
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 AB 2055 (20092010) — Unemployment insurance: benefits: eligibility: reserve accounts: domestic partners.

Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law specifies that an individual is disqualified from receiving benefits if the Director of Employment Development finds that he or she left his or her most recent work voluntarily without cause or that he or she has been discharged for misconduct connected with his or her most recent work. Under existing law, an individual may be deemed to have left his or her most recent work with good cause if he or she leaves employment to accompany his or her spouse or domestic partner to a place from which it is impracticable to commute to the employment, and specifies that, for purposes of those provisions, "spouse" includes a person to whom marriage is imminent.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055&version=20090AB205599INT)
2. **04/13/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055&version=20090AB205598AMD)
3. **08/16/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055&version=20090AB205597AMD)
4. **09/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055&version=20090AB205595CHP)
5. **AB2055** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055)
6. **09/01/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2055&version=20090AB205596ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2055 DE LA TORRE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2055 DE LA TORRE Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2055 De La Torre By Kehoe — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- De La Torre — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2010-03-11** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 48. Noes 26. Page 5486.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (August 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-16** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 4780.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-24** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6562.)
- **2010-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 6577.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:20 p.m.
- **2010-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 590, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/280c3ec2-6cbb-4466-84d8-149fa822d8ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).