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Bill	Employment: minors.	Existing law regulates the employment of minors in the entertainment industry and requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for a minor under 16 years of age to take part in certain types of employment. Existing law makes it a crime to employ or for a parent or guardian to permit the employment of a minor in violation of these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2388	California AB 2388 (20172018)	bill	Employment: minors.	enacted	Chu	6	26	7	2018-02-14	2018-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/5e78cb03-78f1-4610-998e-611ea905ade5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2388	d663012b9e5b114b610028e497285b10e5224f5074b418edb1fb8377eff829fa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2388 (20172018) — Employment: minors.

Existing law regulates the employment of minors in the entertainment industry and requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for a minor under 16 years of age to take part in certain types of employment. Existing law makes it a crime to employ or for a parent or guardian to permit the employment of a minor in violation of these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/21/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/05/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2388 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2388 CHU Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2388 CHU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB2388 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and L. & E. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-05-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5437.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-06-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5284.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6355.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5e78cb03-78f1-4610-998e-611ea905ade5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).