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CA SB 648

enacted

Employment: gratuities: enforcement.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 648 pass?

Yes. CA SB 648 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-30. Latest recorded action (2025-07-30): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 93, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 648 about?

Existing law creates the Department of Industrial Relations, and establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) , which is headed by the Labor Commissioner. The DLSE is generally charged with enforcing employment statutes and regulations, either in administrative actions or through litigation. Existing law imposes various administrative sanctions, civil fines and penalties, and criminal penalties for violations of employment statutes or regulations. Existing law prohibits an employer or agent from collecting, taking, or receiving any gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an employee by a patron, or deducting any amount from wages due an employee on account of a gratuity, or requiring an employee to credit the amount, or any part thereof, of a gratuity against and as a part of the wages due the employee from the employer, and requires the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce these provisions. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to investigate and issue a citation or file a civil action for gratuities taken or withheld in violation of the above-described provisions, as prescribed.

Who sponsors CA SB 648?

Smallwood-Cuevas is the primary sponsor of CA SB 648.

Description

Existing law creates the Department of Industrial Relations, and establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) , which is headed by the Labor Commissioner. The DLSE is generally charged with enforcing employment statutes and regulations, either in administrative actions or through litigation. Existing law imposes various administrative sanctions, civil fines and penalties, and criminal penalties for violations of employment statutes or regulations. Existing law prohibits an employer or agent from collecting, taking, or receiving any gratuity or a part thereof that is paid, given to, or left for an employee by a patron, or deducting any amount from wages due an employee on account of a gratuity, or requiring an employee to credit the amount, or any part thereof, of a gratuity against and as a part of the wages due the employee from the employer, and requires the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce these provisions. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to investigate and issue a citation or file a civil action for gratuities taken or withheld in violation of the above-described provisions, as prescribed.

Introduced
2025-02-20
Latest action
2025-07-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 93, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Smallwood-Cuevasauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-20

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

    introduction,reading-1,referral-committee

  2. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  3. 2025-03-05

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

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-26

    Set for hearing April 9.

  5. 2025-04-09

    Set for hearing April 22.

  6. 2025-04-09

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 739.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 836.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  8. 2025-04-25

    Set for hearing May 5.

  9. 2025-05-05

    May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  10. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  11. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1208.) (May 23).

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  12. 2025-05-23

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-05-27

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  14. 2025-05-29

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1328.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  15. 2025-05-29

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  16. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.

    referral-committee

  17. 2025-06-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  18. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  19. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).

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  20. 2025-07-10

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  21. 2025-07-17

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  22. 2025-07-17

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  23. 2025-07-25

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

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  24. 2025-07-30

    Approved by the Governor.

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  25. 2025-07-30

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 93, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-04-09 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Strickland: yes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-22 · pass · 13-0

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Allen: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Wiener: yes

  • 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 · 6-0

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

  • Special Consent SB648 Smallwood-Cuevas

    2025-05-29 · pass · 38-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Limón: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-25 · pass · 7-0

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

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-07-01 · pass · 12-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Kalra: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Harabedian: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-07-09 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Dixon: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Sanchez: yes

  • SB 648 Smallwood-Cuevas Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-07-17 · pass · 75-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Hart: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Alvarez: other
    • Bennett: other
    • Berman: other
    • Gallagher: other

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB648

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