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Bill	Employee classification: professional classification: specified educational employees.	Existing law provides that 8 hours of labor constitutes a day's work. Under existing law, any work in excess of 8 hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek, and the first 8 hours worked on the 7th day of work in any one workweek, is required to be compensated at the rate of no less than 112 times the regular rate of pay for an employee. Existing law also provides that hours worked in excess of 12 hours in one day as well as hours worked in excess of 8 hours on any 7th day of work are to be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay of an employee. Existing law exempts from these provisions an individual employed as a teacher at a private elementary or secondary academic institution if specified requirements are met.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 736	California AB 736 (20192020)	bill	Employee classification: professional classification: specified educational employees.	enacted	Irwin	6	25	6	2019-02-19	2020-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/f7e958b8-0177-4a50-af23-fce34691e6e6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB736	0a04d6d1a9c14e621a27af1d8d32159f78734761a67d86d3f4bb2c6b2e183d39	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 736 (20192020) — Employee classification: professional classification: specified educational employees.

Existing law provides that 8 hours of labor constitutes a day's work. Under existing law, any work in excess of 8 hours in one workday and any work in excess of 40 hours in any one workweek, and the first 8 hours worked on the 7th day of work in any one workweek, is required to be compensated at the rate of no less than 112 times the regular rate of pay for an employee. Existing law also provides that hours worked in excess of 12 hours in one day as well as hours worked in excess of 8 hours on any 7th day of work are to be compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay of an employee. Existing law exempts from these provisions an individual employed as a teacher at a private elementary or secondary academic institution if specified requirements are met.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/14/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/09/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB736 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB736 Irwin By Hill Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 736 Irwin Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 736 Irwin Concurrence - Urgency Added — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-02-28 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 In committee: Hearing for testimony only.
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1476.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-02-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-02-18 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2020-02-18 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2020-07-01 Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2020-08-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4290.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2020-08-26 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5222.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2020-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7e958b8-0177-4a50-af23-fce34691e6e6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).