SB-513 • 2026

Personnel records.

Crime Education Labor

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Durazo
Last action: 2025-10-11
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 654, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on what constitutes 'specified information' in education and training records, nor does it specify a start date for compliance.

Personnel Records

The law requires employers to include education and training records in personnel documents and mandates these records contain specific information.

What This Bill Does

Adds education and training records to the list of personnel documents that employees can inspect.
Requires employers who maintain education and training records to ensure those records include specified information.

Who It Names or Affects

Current and former employees
Employers who keep personnel files

Terms To Know

Personnel records: Files that employers keep about their workers, like training and performance information.
State-mandated local program: A rule from the state government that tells local agencies what they must do.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify an exact start date for its requirements.
It is unclear exactly which specific information employers are required to include in training records.

Bill History

2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 654, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2025-09-03 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2866.) Ordered to the Senate.
2025-08-21 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 20).
2025-07-10 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-10 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2025-06-05 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on L. & E.
2025-05-28 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-05-28 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1307.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-07 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-06 California Legislative Information
Ordered to second reading.
2025-05-06 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
2025-04-04 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-03 California Legislative Information
April 7 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 7.
2025-03-26 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 568.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-18 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing March 26.
2025-02-26 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2025-02-19 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 513, Durazo.
Personnel records.
Existing law grants current and former employees, or their representative, the right to inspect and receive a copy of personnel records maintained by the employer relating to the employee’s performance or to any grievance concerning the employee. Existing law requires the employer to make the contents of those personnel records available for inspection, as specified, and makes it a crime for an employer to violate these requirements.
This bill would provide that personnel records relating to the employee’s performance include education and training records and would require an employer who maintains education and training records to ensure those records include specified information.
By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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