AB 2550 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Women in the construction industry: report.

Summary

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 construction workers, including, among other data, the training and educational capacity to produce trained, certified, and licensed 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.

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Aug 2026

Assembly Passage

May 2026

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2026 Last action Aug 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

03/19/26 - Amended Assembly → 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly · 6 edits · Apr 16, 2026

MODERATE

The April 16 amendment broadens data collection to include all construction workers (not just women) for demand data, adds a requirement for EDD to coordinate with the Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Apprenticeship Standards on preapprenticeship and apprenticeship program capacity, and removes a separate section that expressed legislative intent to require the Labor Commissioner to report on women in construction. The fiscal committee designation changed from 'no' to 'yes,' indicating a newly identified state-mandated local program or fiscal impact.

SCOPE

Data collection for demand (subsection a(4)) now covers 'women in construction, construction workers' rather than only 'women in construction,' broadening the scope to include all construction workers for demand forecasting.

Removed the entire second section that stated it was the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation requiring the Labor Commissioner to report data on women in construction to the Legislature. This removed a forward-looking commitment to future legislation.

REQUIREMENT

New requirement that EDD work with the Department of Industrial Relations' Division of Apprenticeship Standards to determine training capacity within state-registered construction preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs and to count the number of preapprentices and apprentices who are women in any given year.

DEFINITION

Added 'state-registered preapprenticeship and apprenticeship slots' as a specific data point to be collected alongside educational slots, enrollments, attrition rates, and wait times.

FISCAL

Fiscal committee answer changed from 'no' to 'yes,' indicating the bill now carries a state-mandated local program or fiscal impact that was not previously identified.

TECHNICAL

Multiple subsections (a)(1) through (a)(3) were revised to add clarifying language such as 'construction workers who are women' alongside 'women in construction,' and the website posting requirement was restructured as subsection (c) within Section 1 rather than appearing in a separate section.

Floor votes · Assembly May 27, 2026

How they voted

77–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 79

May 27, 2026

D Democratic59

57 Yea 2

96% Yea

R Republican20

20 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Aug 13, 2026

Upper · Passed

In committee: Held under submission.

upper

Aug 3, 2026

Committee

In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

upper

Jul 1, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

Jun 10, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

upper

May 27, 2026

Assembly · Passed

Assembly Vote: pass (77-0-2)

assembly

May 26, 2026

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)

lower

May 14, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

lower

May 6, 2026

Committee

In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

lower

Apr 23, 2026

Lower · Passed

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.

lower

Apr 20, 2026

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.

lower

Apr 16, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 23, 2026

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.

lower

Mar 19, 2026

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 19, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on L. & E.

lower

Feb 21, 2026

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors