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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employers: agricultural employees: required disclosures."
description: "Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee, at the time of hiring, a written notice including specified information in the language that the employer normally uses to communicate employment-related information to the employee. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare a template that includes the information and to make the template available to employers in a manner as determined by the commissioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 636"
citation: "California AB 636 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employers", "agricultural employees", "required disclosures"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4fdf32c-48fd-4f6b-953a-b804a3e12c67"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636"
source_hash: "13cc50d4bef44edfaa76fd4924e30e740eb9f575e87d01255a9e5c73275af58b"
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 636 (20232024) — Employers: agricultural employees: required disclosures.
Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee, at the time of hiring, a written notice including specified information in the language that the employer normally uses to communicate employment-related information to the employee. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare a template that includes the information and to make the template available to employers in a manner as determined by the commissioner.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636&version=20230AB63699INT)
2. **05/11/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636&version=20230AB63698AMD)
3. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636&version=20230AB63696CHP)
4. **AB636** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636)
5. **09/07/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB636&version=20230AB63697ENR)
## Votes
- AB 636 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — **595** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **122** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB636 Kalra By Durazo — **317** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **50** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **40** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kalra — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1521.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 5. Page 1589.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-31** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2358.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 451, 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/a4fdf32c-48fd-4f6b-953a-b804a3e12c67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).