republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1787.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pesticide testing."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires an employer to contract with a medical supervisor registered with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to satisfy the employer's responsibilities for medical supervision of employees who regularly handle pesticides, as provided. Until January 1, 2023, existing law requires a laboratory that performs tests ordered by a medical supervisor to report specified information to the Department of Pesticide Regulation, including the test results, the purpose of the test, and the name, address, and telephone number of the medical supervisor who ordered the analysis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1787"
citation: "California AB 1787 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pesticide testing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b5bafb4e-8ee2-4050-8c5d-04a4afbb4a3d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787"
source_hash: "e42a78c26fc84f958509dc1e2dc73988097da29beb3f9a3f763ec5eeb5283c4d"
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 1787 (20212022) — Pesticide testing.

Existing law, until January 1, 2023, requires an employer to contract with a medical supervisor registered with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to satisfy the employer's responsibilities for medical supervision of employees who regularly handle pesticides, as provided. Until January 1, 2023, existing law requires a laboratory that performs tests ordered by a medical supervisor to report specified information to the Department of Pesticide Regulation, including the test results, the purpose of the test, and the name, address, and telephone number of the medical supervisor who ordered the analysis.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787&version=20210AB178799INT)
2. **02/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787&version=20210AB178798AMD)
3. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787&version=20210AB178796CHP)
4. **AB1787** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787)
5. **06/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1787&version=20210AB178797ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1787 Quirk Consent Calendar Second Day — **61–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1787 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2022-02-10** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 4577.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-18** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-06-20** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4435.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 108, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b5bafb4e-8ee2-4050-8c5d-04a4afbb4a3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).