CA AB 485

in committee

Labor Commissioner: unsatisfied judgments: nonpayment of wages.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, under the direction of the Labor Commissioner, within the Department of Industrial Relations and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the enforcement of labor laws. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to take various actions against an employer with respect to unpaid wages. Existing law generally prohibits an employer with an unsatisfied final judgment for nonpayment of wages from continuing to conduct business in California, unless that employer has obtained a bond from a surety company and filed that bond with the Labor Commissioner, as prescribed. Under existing law, if an employer in the long-term care industry that is also required to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health or the State Department of Social Services has violated the above provision governing unsatisfied judgments (unsatisfied judgment provision) , either of those departments may deny a new license or the renewal of an existing license for that employer. Existing law further requires the Labor Commissioner, upon finding that an employer in the long-term care industry is violating the unsatisfied judgment provision, to notify those departments. This bill would repeal the above-described provision applicable to employers in the long-term care industry. The bill would require a state agency, if an employer that is required to obtain a license or permit from that state agency is found to have violated the unsatisfied judgment provision, to deny a new license or permit or the renewal of an existing license or permit for that employer. The bill would also require the Labor Commissioner, upon finding that an employer is conducting business in violation of that provision, to notify the applicable state agency with jurisdiction over that employee's license or permit. The bill would additionally permit the State Public Health Officer to exempt a hospital employer from the bill's requirements upon a determination that a denial, suspension, or revocation of the hospital's license, permit, or renewal could have imminent or substantial adverse effects upon public health or safety or would violate constitutional law.

Introduced: 2025-03-03
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-10
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2025-03-03
Referred to Com. on L. & E.
referral-committee
2025-03-03
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-04
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
referral-committee
2025-03-19
Coauthors revised.
2025-03-19
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-09
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 7. Page 1972.)
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2025-06-04
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-18
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
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2025-06-19
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-01
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
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2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.

Versions

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03/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-03Compare
07/01/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-01Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-19 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Ortega: yes
- Lee: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ward: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Flora: other
- Chen: other
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 485 Ortega Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-03 · pass · 56-7
Member-level votes (79)
- Berman: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Fong: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Haney: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Soria: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Papan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Addis: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Davies: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gipson: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Tangipa: no
- Ellis: no
- Patterson: no
- Gallagher: no
- Ávila Farías: no
- DeMaio: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Macedo: other
- Ta: other
- Hadwick: other
- Wallis: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Castillo: other
- Hoover: other
- Flora: other
- Chen: other
- Lackey: other
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Nguyen: other
- Bains: other
- Dixon: other
- Carrillo: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-07-09 · pass · 4-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: other
- Niello: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes

Related bills

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