CA SB 693
enactedEmployees: meal periods.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 693 pass?
Yes. CA SB 693 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-30. Latest recorded action (2025-07-30): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 693 about?
Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law creates exceptions from this prohibition for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions. This bill would also create an exception from the above-described prohibition for employees of a water corporation, as defined.
Who sponsors CA SB 693?
Cortese is the primary sponsor of CA SB 693.
Description
Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law creates exceptions from this prohibition for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions. This bill would also create an exception from the above-described prohibition for employees of a water corporation, as defined.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-07-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Corteseauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-21
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,referral-committee
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-02-24
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-04-11
Set for hearing April 30.
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 967.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-13
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-15
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-05-29
Referred to Com. on L. & E.
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2025-06-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).
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2025-07-10
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-07-17
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-07-17
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-07-25
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-07-30
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-30
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-30 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Padilla: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Grove: other
- Rubio: other
- Cervantes: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-25 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Flora: yes
- Ward: yes
- Chen: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Lee: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ortega: 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 693 Cortese 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
Related bills
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