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type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational safety and health."
description: "Existing law requires an employer to provide employees with a safe workplace and authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce health and safety standards in places of employment and to investigate and to issue a citation and impose civil penalties when an employer commits a serious violation that causes an employee to suffer or potentially suffer, among other things, \"serious injury or illness\" or \"serious physical harm.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2774"
citation: "California AB 2774 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupational safety and health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Swanson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2010-03-01"
last_action: "2010-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e8b88e9-daff-4750-93cf-4784dc3628d2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774"
source_hash: "75c7db2aedec641092fbce00d4e7c63d8c22dba7e86e35df1c657bf06e9a24cc"
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 2774 (20092010) — Occupational safety and health.
Existing law requires an employer to provide employees with a safe workplace and authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce health and safety standards in places of employment and to investigate and to issue a citation and impose civil penalties when an employer commits a serious violation that causes an employee to suffer or potentially suffer, among other things, "serious injury or illness" or "serious physical harm."
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/01/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277499INT)
2. **04/08/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277498AMD)
3. **04/14/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277497AMD)
4. **05/28/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277496AMD)
5. **08/10/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277495AMD)
6. **08/19/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277494AMD)
7. **09/30/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277492CHP)
8. **AB2774** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774)
9. **09/03/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2774&version=20090AB277493ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2774 L.& E. Assembly Third Reading By SWANSON — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2774 Swanson By DeSaulnier — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2774 L.& E. Assembly Third Reading By SWANSON Amend By SWANSON Set #1**pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2774 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Swanson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2010-03-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-03-02** From printer. May be heard in committee April 1.
- **2010-04-08** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-28** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Ayes 42. Noes 21. Page 5340.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-02** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 29. Page 5515.) `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. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-10** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2010-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-16** Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14)
- **2010-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-19** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 4828.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-25** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6645.)
- **2010-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 6713.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2010-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2010.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e8b88e9-daff-4750-93cf-4784dc3628d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).