Existing law prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from employing, suffering, or permitting any minor under 18 years of age to work in or in connection with any establishment or occupation without a permit to employ, issued by the proper educational officers, except as specified. Existing law authorizes, among others, the superintendent of a school district, a county superintendent of schools, and the chief executive officer of a charter school to issue a work permit to a minor, subject to specified requirements and conditions. Existing law provides requirements and conditions for work permits on the basis of the minor's age, and relating to the type of work and the number of hours and periods of the year that a minor is authorized to work.
California SB 1428 (20172018) — Minors: employment: work permits.
Existing law prohibits a person, firm, or corporation from employing, suffering, or permitting any minor under 18 years of age to work in or in connection with any establishment or occupation without a permit to employ, issued by the proper educational officers, except as specified. Existing law authorizes, among others, the superintendent of a school district, a county superintendent of schools, and the chief executive officer of a charter school to issue a work permit to a minor, subject to specified requirements and conditions. Existing law provides requirements and conditions for work permits on the basis of the minor's age, and relating to the type of work and the number of hours and periods of the year that a minor is authorized to work.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor and Employment] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
SB 1428 McGuire Senate Third Reading By O'DONNELL — 78–1 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
McGuire — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2018-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2018-03-08 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and ED. referral-committee
2018-03-16 Set for hearing April 11.
2018-03-20 April 11 hearing postponed by committee.
2018-04-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
2018-04-05 Set for hearing April 11.
2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4626.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-04-13 Set for hearing April 18.
2018-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4717.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2018-04-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-04-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4879.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-04-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2018-05-07 Referred to Coms. on ED. and L. & E. referral-committee
2018-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 6404.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-21 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2018-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2018-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 420, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2ae59a05-240c-4fc0-aeca-b1b486b52758. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).