California's legislature passed SB 947 and enrolled it on September 4. The governor has until September 30 to sign or veto it. If signed, from July 1, 2027, employers could not rely primarily on an automated decision system to discipline or fire a worker unless a human corroborates the decision. They also could not use such a system to infer protected status or punish workers for exercising legal rights. Affected workers would get a written notice afterward, and the Labor Commissioner could issue $500 citations per violation. Plenty of companies now feed productivity scores, scheduling data, or monitoring alerts into performance decisions. If SB 947 is signed, discipline or dismissal of a California employee that rests mainly on one of those tools would need a person to corroborate it and a notice to the worker. HR, managers, and whoever owns those tools would need a shared review step before mid-2027. The bill is not law yet, and the governor's decision sets the clock. List which discipline decisions for California staff start from an automated score or alert.