Existing law provides it is the continuing duty of the Industrial Welfare Commission to ascertain the wages paid to all employees in this state, to ascertain the hours and conditions of labor and employment in the various occupations, trades, and industries in which employees are employed in this state, and to investigate the health, safety, and welfare of those employees. Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations for the enforcement of labor laws, including orders of the commission. Existing law, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits 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 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. Existing law, except as provided in that described meal period provision, authorizes the commission to adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to break periods, meal periods, and days of rest for any workers in California consistent with the health and welfare of those workers. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2000, to adopt wage, hours, and working condition orders necessary to ensure fairness in the establishment of employee workweek schedules. Existing law further requires the commission, by July 1, 2000, to conduct reviews of wages, hours, and working conditions in specified industries and to adopt or modify regulations necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of workers in those industries. Existing wage orders of the commission provide that employees in the health care industry who work shifts in excess of 8 total hours in a workday may voluntarily waive their right to 1 of their 2 meal periods in a prescribed manner. Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a meal or rest or recovery period mandated by an applicable statute, or applicable regulation, standard, or order of the commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, or the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and establishes penalties for an employer's failure to provide a mandated meal or rest or recovery period.
Existing law provides it is the continuing duty of the Industrial Welfare Commission to ascertain the wages paid to all employees in this state, to ascertain the hours and conditions of labor and employment in the various occupations, trades, and industries in which employees are employed in this state, and to investigate the health, safety, and welfare of those employees. Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations for the enforcement of labor laws, including orders of the commission. Existing law, subject to certain exceptions, prohibits 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 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. Existing law, except as provided in that described meal period provision, authorizes the commission to adopt or amend working condition orders with respect to break periods, meal periods, and days of rest for any workers in California consistent with the health and welfare of those workers. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2000, to adopt wage, hours, and working condition orders necessary to ensure fairness in the establishment of employee workweek schedules. Existing law further requires the commission, by July 1, 2000, to conduct reviews of wages, hours, and working conditions in specified industries and to adopt or modify regulations necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of workers in those industries. Existing wage orders of the commission provide that employees in the health care industry who work shifts in excess of 8 total hours in a workday may voluntarily waive their right to 1 of their 2 meal periods in a prescribed manner. Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a meal or rest or recovery period mandated by an applicable statute, or applicable regulation, standard, or order of the commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, or the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and establishes penalties for an employer's failure to provide a mandated meal or rest or recovery period.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar 2nd — 35–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
That the Assembly amendments be taken up for consideration — 4–0 (pass) · upper
SB 327 Hernandez Third Reading Urgency By LOW — 78–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Hernandez — primary (person)
Low — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2015-02-23 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2015-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
2015-04-02 Set for hearing April 14.
2015-04-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2015-04-13 April 14 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2015-04-14 Set for hearing April 28.
2015-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2015-04-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 795.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-05-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 883.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-05-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2015-05-22 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
2015-07-16 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (July 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2015-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2015-08-20 From consent calendar.
2015-08-20 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Holden.
2015-09-02 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Holden.
2015-09-03 From inactive file.
2015-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
2015-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
2015-09-04 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
2015-09-08 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2015-09-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2015-09-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2015-09-11 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3126.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2015-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2015-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
2015-09-11 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee, committee-passage
2015-09-11 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be taken up for consideration. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 2787.) committee-passage
2015-09-11 Urgency clause adopted.
2015-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2770.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
2015-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2015-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 506, Statutes of 2015.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7860f053-be32-4a31-b29c-6be02d529414. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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