---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employee wage withholdings: failure to remit."
description: "(1) Existing law makes it a crime for an employer to fail to make agreed-upon payments to health and welfare funds, pension funds, or various benefit plans. Existing law provides that the crime be punished as a felony or a misdemeanor, as specified, if the amount unpaid exceeds $500, and as a misdemeanor, if the amount is less than $500."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 390"
citation: "California SB 390 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employee wage withholdings: failure to remit."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wright"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4f178ff-980b-429a-aa25-eec12672ea90"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390"
source_hash: "0821e9ae10ac83613ae1acfeef91240e240e576023f7e727ec25af6fb3cba491"
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 SB 390 (20132014) — Employee wage withholdings: failure to remit.

(1) Existing law makes it a crime for an employer to fail to make agreed-upon payments to health and welfare funds, pension funds, or various benefit plans. Existing law provides that the crime be punished as a felony or a misdemeanor, as specified, if the amount unpaid exceeds $500, and as a misdemeanor, if the amount is less than $500.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390&version=20130SB39099INT)
2. **06/25/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390&version=20130SB39098AMD)
3. **10/10/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390&version=20130SB39096CHP)
4. **SB390** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390)
5. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB390&version=20130SB39097ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB390 Wright Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 390 Wright Senate Third Reading By HERNÁNDEZ — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **27–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wright — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2013-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-19** Set for hearing April 10.
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 486.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-12** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2013-04-22** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-24** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2013-04-25** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2013-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 816.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 905.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-13** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-24** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-25** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-03** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3005.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2289.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2013-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 718, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c4f178ff-980b-429a-aa25-eec12672ea90`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).