Bill Text: CA AB522 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Private employment: labor unions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2026-02-02 - Died at Desk. [AB522 Detail]

Download: California-2025-AB522-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 522

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Introduced by Assembly Member DeMaio

February 10, 2025

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An act relating to private employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 522, as introduced, DeMaio. Private employment: labor unions.

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations, which is responsible for, among other things, fostering, promoting, and developing the welfare of wage earners of California to improve their working conditions and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to streamline requirements in state labor law and to curb abuses by labor unions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to streamline requirements in state labor law and to curb abuses by labor unions.