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Bill	Failure to pay wages: penalties.	Existing law provides for a civil penalty, in addition to, and entirely independent and apart from other penalties, on every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee, as specified, including a provision prohibiting wage differential on the basis of sex, as provided in specified provisions of the Labor Code. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to recover that penalty as part of a hearing held to recover unpaid wages and penalties or in an independent civil action. Existing law requires that a specified percentage of the penalty recovered under that provision be paid into a fund within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency dedicated to educating employers about state labor laws and that the remainder be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 673	California AB 673 (20192020)	bill	Failure to pay wages: penalties.	enacted	Carrillo	9	27	9	2019-02-15	2019-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/99d099de-c7b8-4f2e-a4b6-7a10f9400f29	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB673	6b3bc8e850569a7f9598fc9aef29d3514a60f96b95e5021cb396502c52b057e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 673 (20192020) — Failure to pay wages: penalties.

Existing law provides for a civil penalty, in addition to, and entirely independent and apart from other penalties, on every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee, as specified, including a provision prohibiting wage differential on the basis of sex, as provided in specified provisions of the Labor Code. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to recover that penalty as part of a hearing held to recover unpaid wages and penalties or in an independent civil action. Existing law requires that a specified percentage of the penalty recovered under that provision be paid into a fund within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency dedicated to educating employers about state labor laws and that the remainder be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/29/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/10/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB673 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 673 Carrillo Assembly Third Reading — 51–19 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB673 Carrillo et al. By Monning — 29–11 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 673 Carrillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Carrillo — primary (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1985.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 19. Page 2035.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 2574.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3164.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 716, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/99d099de-c7b8-4f2e-a4b6-7a10f9400f29. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).