---
type: "Bill"
title: "Superior court: lactation rooms: Judicial Council report."
description: "Existing law generally requires employers, including the superior court, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3280"
citation: "California AB 3280 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Judicial Council report", "Superior court", "lactation rooms"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Judiciary"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-29"
last_action: "2024-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23012674-571b-47e3-96a9-14f391e51ba4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280"
source_hash: "3489ecb23ade2d4661506a3d990bc3b4097cdf02ee1ae2b9972d81c00ce1c513"
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 3280 (20232024) — Superior court: lactation rooms: Judicial Council report.

Existing law generally requires employers, including the superior court, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/29/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280&version=20230AB328099INT)
2. **05/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280&version=20230AB328098AMD)
3. **09/12/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280&version=20230AB328096CHP)
4. **AB3280** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280)
5. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3280&version=20230AB328097ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent AB3280 JUD. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 3280 Judiciary Assembly Third Reading By KALRA — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2024-03-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5643.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 228, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23012674-571b-47e3-96a9-14f391e51ba4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).