republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-688.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Failure to pay wages: penalties."
description: "(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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 688"
citation: "California SB 688 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Failure to pay wages: penalties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd63420c-c58b-4d11-b624-612ac5cd58fc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688"
source_hash: "f3cb9a8207b784a1a17b96706d282b89ffa5c79ded5b9f0d33b93a3d18b35563"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688&version=20190SB68899INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688&version=20190SB68898AMD)
3. **04/25/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688&version=20190SB68897AMD)
4. **10/10/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688&version=20190SB68895CHP)
5. **SB688** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688)
6. **09/05/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB688&version=20190SB68896ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd63420c-c58b-4d11-b624-612ac5cd58fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).