CA SB 628
deadEmployment: employer contributions: employee withholdings: credit: agricultural employees.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 628 pass?
No. CA SB 628 did not pass — it was defeated or died in the legislative process. Latest recorded action (2026-02-02): Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
What is CA SB 628 about?
The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on taxable income, as provided. Under existing law, every employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, is required to deduct and withhold from those wages, except as provided, for each payroll, a tax computed in an amount substantially equivalent to the amount reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law. Under existing law, every employer required to withhold those taxes is required to, for each calendar quarter, file a withholding report, a quarterly return, and a report of wages in a form prescribed by the Employment Development Department, and pay over the taxes required to be withheld. This bill would authorize an employer to claim a credit in an amount equal to the amount of overtime wages, as defined, paid during that quarter to specified agricultural employees covered by a certain wage order. The bill would require the credit to be claimed on the employer's report of contributions, quarterly return, and report of wages, or in an electronic funds transfer, as specified. The bill would prohibit the total amount claimed in any given quarter from exceeding the amount that would have been remitted for that quarter to the Employment Development Department for employee withholdings.
Who sponsors CA SB 628?
Grove is the primary sponsor of CA SB 628, joined by 5 cosponsors.
Description
The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on taxable income, as provided. Under existing law, every employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, is required to deduct and withhold from those wages, except as provided, for each payroll, a tax computed in an amount substantially equivalent to the amount reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law. Under existing law, every employer required to withhold those taxes is required to, for each calendar quarter, file a withholding report, a quarterly return, and a report of wages in a form prescribed by the Employment Development Department, and pay over the taxes required to be withheld. This bill would authorize an employer to claim a credit in an amount equal to the amount of overtime wages, as defined, paid during that quarter to specified agricultural employees covered by a certain wage order. The bill would require the credit to be claimed on the employer's report of contributions, quarterly return, and report of wages, or in an electronic funds transfer, as specified. The bill would prohibit the total amount claimed in any given quarter from exceeding the amount that would have been remitted for that quarter to the Employment Development Department for employee withholdings.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Latest action
- 2026-02-02 — Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Groveauthor
- Alaniscoauthor
- Gallaghercoauthor
- Jeff Gonzalezcoauthor
- Hoovercoauthor
- Macedocoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-02-02
Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
failure
2025-04-23
April 23 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 870.) Reconsideration granted.
committee-failure,committee-passage-unfavorable
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-02
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Versions
Documents
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Votes
[First] hearing set for [04-23-2025]: Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted
2025-04-23 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Strickland: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-23 · fail · 1-4
Member-level votes (5)
- Strickland: yes
- Cortese: no
- Smallwood-Cuevas: no
- Laird: no
- Durazo: no
Related bills
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