republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-130.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment."
description: "(1) Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authorities necessary to operate the state civil service system in accordance with Article VII of the California Constitution, the Government Code, the merit principle, and applicable rules duly adopted by the State Personnel Board. Existing law requires, except as specified, that the Controller establish and maintain a payroll of all persons employed by every state agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 130"
citation: "California AB 130 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a625dae-b500-4513-9846-70625e8d67be"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130"
source_hash: "4e59db857739c8afe3a68145c9980966fc04edc16254256dd31f00d65944fb1a"
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 130 (20232024) — Employment.

(1) Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authorities necessary to operate the state civil service system in accordance with Article VII of the California Constitution, the Government Code, the merit principle, and applicable rules duly adopted by the State Personnel Board. Existing law requires, except as specified, that the Controller establish and maintain a payroll of all persons employed by every state agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130&version=20230AB13099INT)
2. **02/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130&version=20230AB13098AMD)
3. **06/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130&version=20230AB13097AMD)
4. **07/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130&version=20230AB13095CHP)
5. **AB130** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130)
6. **06/27/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB130&version=20230AB13096ENR)

## Votes

- AB 130 Budget Assembly Third Reading By TING — **60–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 130 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **62–14** (pass) · lower
- 2nd Reading AB130 BUDGET (Ting) By Skinner — **32–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)
- **2023-03-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-03-20** Ordered to second reading.
- **2023-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 843.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-04-12** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-27** Senate Rules Suspended (Ayes 32. Noes 8.)
- **2023-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 3. Page 1766.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 2422.)
- **2023-06-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2422.)
- **2023-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 14. Page 2422.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 39, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a625dae-b500-4513-9846-70625e8d67be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).