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Bill	Employee wages: payment.	Existing law requires that employers pay wages to their employees, twice per calendar month, on days designated in advance as regular paydays. However, employees defined as executive, administrative, or professional may be paid once per month. Existing law provides that a violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 698	California SB 698 (20192020)	bill	Employee wages: payment.	enacted	Leyva	6	26	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/6fb6ff0a-e82d-4d91-a542-91c6e6ea5a0f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB698	aa3837925d22fd08dd10d7172f3df5628a870ea7d0eda6882ac4a51ca016bab0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 698 (20192020) — Employee wages: payment.

Existing law requires that employers pay wages to their employees, twice per calendar month, on days designated in advance as regular paydays. However, employees defined as executive, administrative, or professional may be paid once per month. Existing law provides that a violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/03/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB698 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB698 Leyva et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 698 Leyva Senate Third Reading By Wicks — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leyva — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (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 L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2019-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 801.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2019-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1107.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1258.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3325.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2019-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 508, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6fb6ff0a-e82d-4d91-a542-91c6e6ea5a0f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).