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type: "Bill"
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title: "Settlement agreements: employment disputes."
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description: "Existing law prohibits an agreement to settle an employment dispute from containing a provision that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts a settling party that is an aggrieved person, as defined, from working for the employer against which the aggrieved person has filed a claim or any parent company, subsidiary, division, affiliate, or contractor of the employer."
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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 2143"
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citation: "California AB 2143 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Settlement agreements: employment disputes."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 18
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2020-02-10"
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last_action: "2020-09-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ab213cb-12b8-4894-bcc8-4e4862b333db"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143"
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source_hash: "61e4b0c7dd5084e03046f286a91ebf3b9f1fc60457eade207ece09157513b050"
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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 2143 (20192020) — Settlement agreements: employment disputes.
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Existing law prohibits an agreement to settle an employment dispute from containing a provision that prohibits, prevents, or otherwise restricts a settling party that is an aggrieved person, as defined, from working for the employer against which the aggrieved person has filed a claim or any parent company, subsidiary, division, affiliate, or contractor of the employer.
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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. **02/10/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143&version=20190AB214399INT)
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2. **03/02/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143&version=20190AB214398AMD)
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3. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143&version=20190AB214396CHP)
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4. **AB2143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143)
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5. **08/31/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2143&version=20190AB214397ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2143 Mark Stone Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar AB2143 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Mark Stone — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
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- **2020-02-27** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-03-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2020-05-12** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2020-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4602.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4378.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2020-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 73, 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/9ab213cb-12b8-4894-bcc8-4e4862b333db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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