republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-292.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: sexual harassment."
description: "Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Existing law makes these provisions applicable to employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, and specified training programs and also defines harassment because of sex for these purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 292"
citation: "California SB 292 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: sexual harassment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbett"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-14"
last_action: "2013-08-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff20dea0-5903-4016-ad6d-3b18dcfd37d5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292"
source_hash: "0083c9e3cd73d8b78dc6d7603e9f4770e39cca191bf2045873702f7af27747ad"
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 SB 292 (20132014) — Employment: sexual harassment.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Existing law makes these provisions applicable to employers, labor organizations, employment agencies, and specified training programs and also defines harassment because of sex for these purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292&version=20130SB29299INT)
2. **04/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292&version=20130SB29298AMD)
3. **08/12/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292&version=20130SB29296CHP)
4. **SB292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292)
5. **08/02/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB292&version=20130SB29297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Labor and Employment. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 292 Corbett Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Corbett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-05** Set for hearing April 16.
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 567.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 607.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-05** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-27** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-07-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2292.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-07-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2013-08-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2013-08-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 88, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff20dea0-5903-4016-ad6d-3b18dcfd37d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).