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Bill	Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants.	Existing law prescribes limits on the hours of employment of minors, but authorizes the Labor Commissioner to grant an exemption to employers operating agricultural packing plants for the employment of minors 16 and 17 years of age for up to 10 hours on days when school is not in session, during the peak harvest season.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1398	California AB 1398 (20112012)	bill	Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants.	enacted	Chesbro	7	31	8	2011-02-28	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/70399c14-9a5b-49de-9eb7-e3e60ab95b0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1398	cdbab1f9a613538d280f0546a68298302aab2088c5797bfbeb148bd4d9096dc4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1398 (20112012) — Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants.

Existing law prescribes limits on the hours of employment of minors, but authorizes the Labor Commissioner to grant an exemption to employers operating agricultural packing plants for the employment of minors 16 and 17 years of age for up to 10 hours on days when school is not in session, during the peak harvest season.

Version chain

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

1. 02/28/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1398 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1398 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By FEUER — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #7 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1398 CHESBRO Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1398 CHESBRO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1398 Chesbro By DeSaulnier — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chesbro — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 Measure version as amended on March 31 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2011-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1565.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-13 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1915.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-08-18 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2445.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2011-08-25 Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments and whereby the bill was ordered to enrollment. Ordered returned to Senate.
• 2011-08-25 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2011-09-02 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2011-09-02 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2386.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3140.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70399c14-9a5b-49de-9eb7-e3e60ab95b0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).