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CA AB2722

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/20/2026

Primary Sponsor

Stan Ellis

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Makes nonsubstantive (technical) changes to Labor Code Section 2929, which prohibits employers from discharging employees due to wage garnishment threats or actual garnishment for one judgment

  • Updates gendered language throughout the statute, replacing "his" with "the employee's" and "he" with "the employee"

  • Modernizes phrasing by changing "No employer may" to "An employer shall not" and replacing "such" with "that" or "those"

  • Removes redundant phrase "in his discretion" when describing the Labor Commissioner's authority to take assignment of wage claims

  • Does not change any substantive employee protections, remedies, or employer obligations under the existing wage garnishment discharge law

Legislative Description

Discharge: wage garnishment.

Last Action

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

2/21/2026

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