republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2610.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees: meal periods."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2610"
citation: "California AB 2610 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employees: meal periods."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1feafade-64fc-436f-8e2d-8e522910cbaf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610"
source_hash: "bfbac52f09d3cb8aab04b1d7637b270ac8016678a1b91055378098c36ed06084"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610&version=20170AB261099INT)
2. **03/15/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610&version=20170AB261098AMD)
3. **05/10/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610&version=20170AB261097AMD)
4. **07/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610&version=20170AB261095CHP)
5. **AB2610** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610)
6. **07/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2610&version=20170AB261096ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1feafade-64fc-436f-8e2d-8e522910cbaf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).