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Bill	Employment: lactation accommodation.	Existing law requires every employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child and requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employee's work area for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty and makes the Labor Commissioner responsible for enforcement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1976	California AB 1976 (20172018)	bill	Employment: lactation accommodation.	enacted	Limón	7	26	7	2018-01-31	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/3fe78ba0-7be2-4cc7-b595-2175558a2a19	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1976	54eb9ada727cc6481689506ae86af4ca6b53676496a51fae6717211731aea8ad	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1976 (20172018) — Employment: lactation accommodation.

Existing law requires every employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child and requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room or other location, other than a toilet stall, in close proximity to the employee's work area for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty and makes the Labor Commissioner responsible for enforcement.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/26/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1976 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1976 LIMÓN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1976 Limón et al. By Wiener — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1976 LIMÓN Assembly Third Reading — 57–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2018-02-08 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2018-03-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 1. Page 4561.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5967.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6993.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 940, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3fe78ba0-7be2-4cc7-b595-2175558a2a19. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).