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Bill	Employees: meal periods.	Existing law generally prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work more than 5 hours per day without providing a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law excepts employees in specified occupations that meet certain conditions from this prohibition and authorizes the Industrial Welfare 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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2610	California AB 2610 (20172018)	bill	Employees: meal periods.	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	6	20	5	2018-02-15	2018-07-20	openstates	ocd-bill/1feafade-64fc-436f-8e2d-8e522910cbaf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610	bfbac52f09d3cb8aab04b1d7637b270ac8016678a1b91055378098c36ed06084	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2610 (20172018) — Employees: meal periods.

Existing law generally prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work more than 5 hours per day without providing a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law excepts employees in specified occupations that meet certain conditions from this prohibition and authorizes the Industrial Welfare 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.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/10/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2610 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar AB2610 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2610 AGUIAR-CURRY Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-15 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2018-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2018-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-05-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-10 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5219.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-17 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5040.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2018-07-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-07-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-07-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1feafade-64fc-436f-8e2d-8e522910cbaf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).