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Bill	Failure to pay wages: penalties.	(1) Existing law makes an employer or other person acting individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person who fails to pay or causes a failure to pay an employee a wage less than the minimum wage subject to citation by the Labor Commissioner, a civil penalty, restitution of wages, liquidated damages, and certain other applicable penalties.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 688	California SB 688 (20192020)	bill	Failure to pay wages: penalties.	enacted	Monning	6	26	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/fd63420c-c58b-4d11-b624-612ac5cd58fc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688	f3cb9a8207b784a1a17b96706d282b89ffa5c79ded5b9f0d33b93a3d18b35563	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 688 (20192020) — Failure to pay wages: penalties.

(1) Existing law makes an employer or other person acting individually or as an officer, agent, or employee of another person who fails to pay or causes a failure to pay an employee a wage less than the minimum wage subject to citation by the Labor Commissioner, a civil penalty, restitution of wages, liquidated damages, and certain other applicable penalties.

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. 10/10/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB688 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 32–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 688 Monning Senate Third Reading By Kalra — 63–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Monning — 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 Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-05 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1. Page 654.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1. Page 800.) (April 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-25 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 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 1155.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-03 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 13. Page 2960.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2019-09-10 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 723, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fd63420c-c58b-4d11-b624-612ac5cd58fc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).