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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response."
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description: "Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, provides the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations with the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over all employment and places of employment necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards and to protect employees. Under the act, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the division is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 2043"
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citation: "California AB 2043 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Robert Rivas"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2020-02-03"
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last_action: "2020-09-28"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73cced0b-bd1a-4b87-9669-f3f504ec3b50"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043"
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source_hash: "73f10c0220d6c32fe1e40ce5afdeafe38125b799ac126ca4d75e5d95a4f53685"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2043 (20192020) — Occupational safety and health: agricultural employers and employees: COVID-19 response.
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Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, provides the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations with the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over all employment and places of employment necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards and to protect employees. Under the act, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the division is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal occupational safety and health standards and orders.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/03/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204399INT)
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2. **05/11/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204398AMD)
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3. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204397AMD)
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4. **06/10/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204396AMD)
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5. **07/08/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204395AMD)
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6. **07/28/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204394AMD)
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7. **08/20/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204393AMD)
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8. **09/28/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204391CHP)
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9. **AB2043** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043)
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10. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2043&version=20190AB204392ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **14–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB2043 Robert Rivas et al. By Caballero Urgency Clause — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2043 Robert Rivas Concurrence - Urgency Added — **67–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2043 Robert Rivas Assembly Third Reading — **55–15** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Robert Rivas — primary (person)
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- Bonta — coauthor (person)
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- Eduardo Garcia — author (person)
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- Eggman — coauthor (person)
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- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
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- Gonzalez — author (person)
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- Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
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- Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
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- **2020-02-14** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2020-05-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-05-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-06-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4747.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-06-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 15. Page 4829.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-07-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-08-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (August 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-13** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4432.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2020-08-30** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 5359.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2020-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 212, Statutes of 2020.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73cced0b-bd1a-4b87-9669-f3f504ec3b50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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