republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-1252.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wages: records: inspection and copying."
description: "Existing law requires an employer, semimonthly or at the time of payment of wages, to furnish an employee, an accurate, itemized, written statement containing specified information regarding the amounts earned, hours worked, and the employee's identity, among other things, subject to certain variations. Existing law grants current and former employees of employers who are required to keep this information the right to inspect or copy records pertaining to their employment, upon reasonable request. Existing law requires an employer to respond to these requests within a specified time and prescribes a penalty of $750 for an employer's failure to permit a current or former employee to inspect or copy records within that time, to be recovered by the employee or the Labor Commissioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1252"
citation: "California SB 1252 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Wages: records: inspection and copying."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b6f1b3c-a49e-4a0a-80bc-188630aa503e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1252"
source_hash: "be7538e06fb83fbe8f87b4a74667d3dbe030956879c8585d6f6c0634e02fc2db"
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 SB 1252 (20172018) — Wages: records: inspection and copying.

Existing law requires an employer, semimonthly or at the time of payment of wages, to furnish an employee, an accurate, itemized, written statement containing specified information regarding the amounts earned, hours worked, and the employee's identity, among other things, subject to certain variations. Existing law grants current and former employees of employers who are required to keep this information the right to inspect or copy records pertaining to their employment, upon reasonable request. Existing law requires an employer to respond to these requests within a specified time and prescribes a penalty of $750 for an employer's failure to permit a current or former employee to inspect or copy records within that time, to be recovered by the employee or the Labor Commissioner.

## 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=201720180SB1252&version=20170SB125299INT)
2. **04/16/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1252&version=20170SB125298AMD)
3. **09/17/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1252&version=20170SB125296CHP)
4. **SB1252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1252)
5. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1252&version=20170SB125297ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1252 Pan Senate Third Reading By THURMOND — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-16** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2018-04-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4626.) (April 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-04-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-04-17** Set for hearing April 23.
- **2018-04-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4939.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-10** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-31** June 6 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6474.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2018-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
- **2018-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 464, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b6f1b3c-a49e-4a0a-80bc-188630aa503e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).