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SB 578STATE · CaliforniaIntroduced

California Workplace Outreach Program.

Voted 10/13/2025View source

Summary

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to, among other things, foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, require the department, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose, to establish and maintain the California Workplace Outreach Program to promote awareness of, and compliance with, workplace protections that affect workers. The bill would require the department to issue a competitive request for application for qualified organizations, as defined, to provide education and outreach services to workers and to assist workers to assert their workplace rights. This bill would require the department to guide discussions with qualified organizations regarding priority topics for outreach and education and to consult with those organizations and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and, as relevant, its departments and boards to create education and outreach materials informing workers of their rights on priority topics and training materials for workers and organizations. The bill would require the materials to be translated into non-English languages, to be determined by the department in consultation with each qualified organization, as appropriate for the geographic region the qualified organization serves, and would require the materials to be made in consultation and collaboration with the Civil Rights Department if those materials involve protections under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act or certain other statutes. The bill would require the department and qualified organizations to meet at least twice a year to coordinate outreach and education efforts and for qualified organizations to share information relevant to enforcement activities of the department.

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Roll-call record

How representatives voted

88 yea·21 nay

Docket history

Action history

  1. 10/13/2025Approved by the Governor.
  2. 10/13/2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 771, Statutes of 2025.
  3. 9/22/2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. 9/11/2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2882.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. 9/10/2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 3177.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. 9/10/2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. 9/3/2025Read third time and amended.
  8. 9/3/2025Ordered to third reading.
  9. 9/2/2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. 8/29/2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 29).