Women in the construction industry: report.

Education Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Caloza
Last action: 2026-04-23
Official status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not mention construction training programs being affected by this bill.

Women in Construction: Reporting Requirements

This law requires the Employment Development Department to collect information about women working in construction jobs, including training and education data, and report this information every three years.

What This Bill Does

Requires the Employment Development Department to gather specific details on women working in construction roles.
Includes collecting data such as training programs and educational opportunities for women in construction.
Collaborates with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to track how many women are part of apprenticeships or pre-apprenticeships each year.
Requires a report to be made every three years, starting July 1, 2027, about these findings and posted online.

Who It Names or Affects

The Employment Development Department
Women working in construction jobs

Terms To Know

Nontraditional occupations: Jobs where less than 25% of workers are women, based on U.S. Labor statistics.
Apprenticeship: A program that combines on-the-job training with classroom instruction to teach skills needed for a specific job.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how the collected data will be used beyond reporting.
It is unclear what actions, if any, are required based on the findings of these reports.

Bill History

2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-20 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-04-16 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2550, as amended, Caloza.
Women in the construction industry: report.
Existing law requires the Employment Development Department, among other duties, to establish, in conjunction with other state entities, a systemwide policy of actively promoting the training of women in nontraditional occupations. Existing law defines “nontraditional occupations” as any job classification in which not more than 25% of the employees are women, according to the statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
This bill would require the department to collect specified data on
women in the construction industry,
construction workers,
including, among other data, the
training and
educational capacity to produce trained, certified, and licensed
women in construction.
construction workers. This bill would also require the department to work with the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Apprenticeship Standards to determine this capacity within state-registered construction preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs and to determine the number of construction preapprentices and apprentices in any given year who are women.
The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter, to report this data to the Legislature and post the report on its internet website.

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