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Bill	Employees: lactation accommodation.	Existing law prohibits an employer, who is required by law to give an employee a rest period during a workday, from requiring the employee to work during the rest period. Existing law requires an employer to pay the employee one additional hour of pay, at the employee's regular rate of compensation, for each rest period not provided. Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee's infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a bathroom, in close proximity to the employee's work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer's operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 142	California SB 142 (20192020)	bill	Employees: lactation accommodation.	enacted	Wiener	10	40	15	2019-01-18	2019-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/798d44b5-6ea8-431a-9142-608f38c25927	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB142	86eb0996d9573e016a1a844a0d2b4f0ab47631fe21050ce02fd522c61affa76f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 142 (20192020) — Employees: lactation accommodation.

Existing law prohibits an employer, who is required by law to give an employee a rest period during a workday, from requiring the employee to work during the rest period. Existing law requires an employer to pay the employee one additional hour of pay, at the employee's regular rate of compensation, for each rest period not provided. Existing law requires employers to provide a reasonable amount of break time to employees desiring to express milk for the employee's infant child. Existing law also requires an employer to make reasonable efforts to provide the employee with the use of a room, or other location, other than a bathroom, in close proximity to the employee's work area, for the employee to express milk in private. Existing law exempts an employer from the break time requirement if the employer's operations would be seriously disrupted by providing that time to employees desiring to express milk. Existing law subjects employers who violate these provisions to a civil penalty of $100 per violation and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue citations for those violations.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/10/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB142 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• [04-23-2019] set for [First] hearing: Reconsideration of favorable vote granted — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 142 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Wicks — 57–13 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB142 Wiener et al. — 26–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• [04-11-2019] hearing: Motion to Reconsider. [Reconsideration Granted.] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — 3–0 (fail) · upper
• Do pass — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Housing] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB142 Wiener et al. Concurrence — 28–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-01-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 21.
• 2019-01-31 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R., JUD., and HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2019-03-14 Set for hearing March 27.
• 2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 466.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-28 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2019-04-10 April 9 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 652.) committee-failure
• 2019-04-11 Senate Rule 21.5(k)(2) suspended.
• 2019-04-11 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2019-04-11 April 11 hearing: Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 749.)
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 749.) (April 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-18 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 April 22 set for first hearing. Reconsideration of favorable vote granted.
• 2019-04-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 774.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 1090.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 9. Page 1182.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-30 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 13. Page 3329.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 2847.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 720, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/798d44b5-6ea8-431a-9142-608f38c25927. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).