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Bill	Meal periods: exemptions.	Existing law prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, an employer from requiring an employee to work more than 5 hours per day without providing a meal period and, notwithstanding that provision, authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt a working condition order permitting a meal period to commence after 6 hours of work if the order is consistent with the health and welfare of affected employees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 569	California AB 569 (20092010)	bill	Meal periods: exemptions.	enacted	Emmerson	13	40	7	2009-02-25	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ccfb774b-c2a3-4ba4-ac61-04ea4cd25a3b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB569	8504842922bb8690767ed13c4887a77f64e96b836db7a1f5481eb6157c524da1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 569 (20092010) — Meal periods: exemptions.

Existing law prohibits, subject to certain exceptions, an employer from requiring an employee to work more than 5 hours per day without providing a meal period and, notwithstanding that provision, authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt a working condition order permitting a meal period to commence after 6 hours of work if the order is consistent with the health and welfare of affected employees.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/20/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB569 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/03/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 569 EMMERSON Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 569 Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BERRYHILL, B. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB569 Emmerson By Emmerson — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emmerson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2009-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 1625.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-06-30 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-01 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-14 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-07-15 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). referral-committee
• 2009-09-10 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
• 2009-09-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-09-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-02-04 Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2010-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-05-25 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-16 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2010-08-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-25 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 1. Page 4869.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-26 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 6707.)
• 2010-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 4. Page 6727.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 662, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ccfb774b-c2a3-4ba4-ac61-04ea4cd25a3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).