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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1109: Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1109 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege. Primary sponsor: Ash Kalra (D). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under existing law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure.

This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the union agent’s representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified. The bill would further provide that this privilege may be waived in accordance with existing law and does not apply in criminal proceedings.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ash KalraPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly25
Robert GarciaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly50
Mark GonzálezCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly54
Liz OrtegaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly20
Chris RogersCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly2
Pilar SchiavoCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly40

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
  5. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 6. Page 1507.)
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8).
  9. Coauthors revised.
  10. Referred to Com. on JUD.
  11. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
  12. Read first time. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page