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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	20152016	SB 702	California SB 702 (20152016)	bill	Employment of minors: agricultural packing plants.	enacted	McGuire	7	30	7	2015-02-27	2016-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6fd66c32-7117-4be8-b48a-6414d214959e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB702	693d39b9e27949e68f64054e697f79949100ca1c8b82294e3a22d996a8b11df1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 702 (20152016) — 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. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/03/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB702 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 18–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 702 McGuire Senate Third Reading By DODD — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2015-03-27 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2015-04-06 April 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-01-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-04 Set for hearing January 13.
• 2016-01-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2896.) (January 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-14 Set for hearing January 19.
• 2016-01-15 January 19 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-01-16 Set for hearing January 21.
• 2016-01-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 2935.) (January 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-01-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-01-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2954.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-01-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2016-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-03 August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-08-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 1.) (August 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 5899.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-08-25 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5428.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 775, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fd66c32-7117-4be8-b48a-6414d214959e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).