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type: "Bill"
title: "Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements."
description: "The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. The act requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment, abusive conduct, and harassment based upon gender, as specified, to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position and once every 2 years, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1343"
citation: "California SB 1343 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3f25494-9b2c-4f62-8c9d-1497641b40fc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343"
source_hash: "67c028e6441cd9854f9b0da088c57dfdfddaae24f73fa2aab63d6d0c3a4afe06"
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 1343 (20172018) — Employers: sexual harassment training: requirements.
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. The act requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide at least 2 hours of prescribed training and education regarding sexual harassment, abusive conduct, and harassment based upon gender, as specified, to all supervisory employees within 6 months of their assumption of a supervisory position and once every 2 years, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134399INT)
2. **04/19/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134398AMD)
3. **05/25/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134397AMD)
4. **06/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134396AMD)
5. **08/20/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134395AMD)
6. **08/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134394AMD)
7. **09/30/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134392CHP)
8. **SB1343** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343)
9. **09/07/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1343&version=20170SB134393ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB1343 Mitchell et al. Concurrence — **390** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **40** (pass) · upper
- SB 1343 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **120** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mitchell — primary (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez Fletcher — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2018-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 4626.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-13** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4723.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-04-24** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2018-04-30** April 30 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-05-18** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4309.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4379.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-18** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-08** August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-08-16** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6973.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6116.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2018-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 956, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3f25494-9b2c-4f62-8c9d-1497641b40fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).