republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2299.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Labor Commissioner: whistleblower protections: model list of rights and responsibilities."
description: "Existing law prohibits employers from making, adopting, or enforcing a policy that prevents an employee from disclosing violations of a state or federal statute, or a violation or noncompliance with a local, state, or federal regulation to, among others, a government or law enforcement agency, or from retaliating against an employee who makes a disclosure. Existing law requires an employer to prominently display a list of employees' rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws, as prescribed. Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations and vests the division with the general duty of enforcing labor laws. Existing law provides that the Labor Commissioner is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2299"
citation: "California AB 2299 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor Commissioner", "model list of rights and responsibilities", "whistleblower protections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Flora"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06041a76-5305-4d27-b266-3955c9b655b0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2299"
source_hash: "c612e36c78c303f40cd894e1c91dead5588f5943ddb2b8d8eff3c725e1227baa"
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 2299 (20232024) — Labor Commissioner: whistleblower protections: model list of rights and responsibilities.

Existing law prohibits employers from making, adopting, or enforcing a policy that prevents an employee from disclosing violations of a state or federal statute, or a violation or noncompliance with a local, state, or federal regulation to, among others, a government or law enforcement agency, or from retaliating against an employee who makes a disclosure. Existing law requires an employer to prominently display a list of employees' rights and responsibilities under the whistleblower laws, as prescribed. Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations and vests the division with the general duty of enforcing labor laws. Existing law provides that the Labor Commissioner is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2299&version=20230AB229999INT)
2. **07/15/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2299&version=20230AB229997CHP)
3. **AB2299** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2299)
4. **06/25/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2299&version=20230AB229998ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2299 Flora Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Flora — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4627.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 105, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06041a76-5305-4d27-b266-3955c9b655b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).