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CA SB 442

withdrawn

Grocery retail store and retail drug establishment employees: self-service checkout.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 442 pass?

No. CA SB 442 was withdrawn on 2025-08-29 and is no longer under consideration. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): August 29 hearing postponed by committee.

What is CA SB 442 about?

Existing law imposes certain requirements on grocery employers, as defined, upon the purchase or change in control of a grocery establishment, including requiring a successor grocery employer to retain eligible grocery workers for a specified period after transfer of the grocery establishment. This bill would prohibit a grocery retail store or a retail drug establishment, as those terms are defined, from providing a self-service checkout option for customers unless specified conditions are satisfied, including having at least one manual checkout station staffed by an employee who is available to any given customer at the time that a self-service checkout option is made available to that customer. This bill would require a grocery retail store or retail drug establishment that offers self-service checkout to include self-service checkout in the employer's illness and prevention program, as required by regulations of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The bill also would require a grocery retail store or retail drug establishment that intends to implement self-checkout to notify workers and their collective bargaining representatives at least 60 days in advance of the implementation, as specified. The bill would not preempt any city, county, or city and county ordinance that provides equal or greater protection to workers. This bill would make an employer who violates the bill's provisions subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation per day, not to exceed an aggregate penalty of $200,000.

Who sponsors CA SB 442?

Smallwood-Cuevas is the primary sponsor of CA SB 442, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law imposes certain requirements on grocery employers, as defined, upon the purchase or change in control of a grocery establishment, including requiring a successor grocery employer to retain eligible grocery workers for a specified period after transfer of the grocery establishment. This bill would prohibit a grocery retail store or a retail drug establishment, as those terms are defined, from providing a self-service checkout option for customers unless specified conditions are satisfied, including having at least one manual checkout station staffed by an employee who is available to any given customer at the time that a self-service checkout option is made available to that customer. This bill would require a grocery retail store or retail drug establishment that offers self-service checkout to include self-service checkout in the employer's illness and prevention program, as required by regulations of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The bill also would require a grocery retail store or retail drug establishment that intends to implement self-checkout to notify workers and their collective bargaining representatives at least 60 days in advance of the implementation, as specified. The bill would not preempt any city, county, or city and county ordinance that provides equal or greater protection to workers. This bill would make an employer who violates the bill's provisions subject to a civil penalty of $1,000 per violation per day, not to exceed an aggregate penalty of $200,000.

Introduced
2025-02-18
Latest action
2025-08-29 — August 29 hearing postponed by committee.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Smallwood-Cuevasauthor
  • Lowenthalprincipal coauthor
  • Cortesecoauthor
  • Durazocoauthor
  • Kalracoauthor
  • McKinnorcoauthor
  • Ortegacoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.

  3. 2025-02-26

    Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing March 26.

  5. 2025-03-26

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 567.) (March 26).

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  6. 2025-03-27

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-04-01

    Set for hearing April 8.

  8. 2025-04-01

    April 8 hearing postponed by committee.

  9. 2025-04-03

    Set for hearing April 22.

  10. 2025-04-10

    April 22 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  11. 2025-04-11

    Set for hearing April 29.

  12. 2025-04-21

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  13. 2025-04-22

    Withdrawn from committee.

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  14. 2025-04-22

    April 29 hearing postponed by committee.

  15. 2025-04-22

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  16. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  17. 2025-05-05

    May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  18. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  19. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1200.) (May 23).

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  20. 2025-05-23

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 1404.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  22. 2025-06-03

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  23. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Com. on L. & E.

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  24. 2025-06-26

    Coauthors revised.

  25. 2025-06-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  26. 2025-07-09

    July 9 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  27. 2025-08-29

    August 29 hearing postponed by committee.

Versions

  • 02/18/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-18Compare
  • 03/27/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-27Compare
  • 04/21/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-21Compare
  • SB442Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-03-26 · pass · 4-1

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Laird: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: no

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-05-05 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading SB442 Smallwood-Cuevas

    2025-06-02 · pass · 26-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Niello: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Grove: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Choi: no
    • Jones: no
    • Hurtado: other
    • Cabaldon: other
    • Blakespear: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-25 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Ward: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Chen: other
    • Flora: other

Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB442

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