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Bill	Employment: payment of wages: print shoot employees.	Existing law subjects employers to various requirements related to the payment of wages. Existing law generally requires that if an employer discharges an employee, the wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately. Existing law establishes specific provisions that entitle an employee engaged in the production or broadcasting of motion pictures, as defined, whose employment terminates, to receive payment of the wages earned and unpaid at the time of the termination by the next regular payday, as defined. Existing law establishes penalties for certain violations relating to payment in accordance with these specific provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 671	California SB 671 (20192020)	bill	Employment: payment of wages: print shoot employees.	enacted	Hertzberg	7	33	6	2019-02-22	2019-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/293cc240-eff7-4b48-8f00-f060944b9048	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB671	d7498911aa5d572788279a797841676890d337a875eef9aa3a921a51850d336c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 671 (20192020) — Employment: payment of wages: print shoot employees.

Existing law subjects employers to various requirements related to the payment of wages. Existing law generally requires that if an employer discharges an employee, the wages earned and unpaid at the time of discharge are due and payable immediately. Existing law establishes specific provisions that entitle an employee engaged in the production or broadcasting of motion pictures, as defined, whose employment terminates, to receive payment of the wages earned and unpaid at the time of the termination by the next regular payday, as defined. Existing law establishes penalties for certain violations relating to payment in accordance with these specific provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB671 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 671 Hertzberg Third Reading Urgency By Calderon — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent (Urgency Clause) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 654.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 From consent calendar on motion of Senator Hertzberg.
• 2019-04-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-04-25 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 958.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-07 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2019-07-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-07-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-08-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2670.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-08-19 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2242.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 253, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/293cc240-eff7-4b48-8f00-f060944b9048. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).