California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2495: Unlawful immigration-related practices.
Status: Chaptered, September 29, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 1019 of the Labor Code, relating to employment. employment Unlawful immigration-related practices. Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of, or with the intent of, retaliating against any person for exercising a right protected under state labor and employment laws or under a local ordinance applicable to employees, as specified…
From the chaptered text, September 29, 2026:
An act to amend Section 1019 of the Labor Code, relating to employment. employment Unlawful immigration-related practices. Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of, or with the intent of, retaliating against any person for exercising a right protected under state labor and employment laws or under a local ordinance applicable to employees, as specified. Existing law authorizes a civil action for equitable relief and damages or penalties, as specified, by an employee or other person who is the subject of an unfair immigration-related practice. This bill would expand the above-described prohibition to include retaliating against any person for exercising any right under any local, state, or federal statute or regulation applicable to employees, as defined, and would prohibit preventing a person from exercising such a right. The bill would also prohibit an employer or any other person from engaging in any other conduct, related to any person’s perceived immigration status, that would reasonably tend to dissuade a person from engaging in conduct that the person has a legal right to engage in under any local, state, or federal statute or regulation applicable to employees, or to induce a person to engage in conduct that the person has …
Sponsors
- Ash Kalra (D, AD25) · primary sponsor