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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Employment: minors."
+description: "Existing law regulates the employment of minors in the entertainment industry and requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for a minor under 16 years of age to take part in certain types of employment. Existing law makes it a crime to employ or for a parent or guardian to permit the employment of a minor in violation of these provisions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2388"
+citation: "California AB 2388 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Employment: minors."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-02-14"
+last_action: "2018-09-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e78cb03-78f1-4610-998e-611ea905ade5"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388"
+source_hash: "d663012b9e5b114b610028e497285b10e5224f5074b418edb1fb8377eff829fa"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2388 (20172018) — Employment: minors.
+
+Existing law regulates the employment of minors in the entertainment industry and requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for a minor under 16 years of age to take part in certain types of employment. Existing law makes it a crime to employ or for a parent or guardian to permit the employment of a minor in violation of these provisions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388&version=20170AB238899INT)
+2. **05/21/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388&version=20170AB238898AMD)
+3. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388&version=20170AB238897AMD)
+4. **09/05/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388&version=20170AB238895CHP)
+5. **AB2388** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388)
+6. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388&version=20170AB238896ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 2388 CHU Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2388 CHU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent AB2388 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chu — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2018-03-01** Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and L. & E. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2018-05-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5437.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-06-07** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-25** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2018-06-25** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2018-06-25** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2018-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-01** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5284.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6355.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2018-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e78cb03-78f1-4610-998e-611ea905ade5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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