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Bill	Meal and rest breaks: airline cabin crew employees.	Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee with a meal period during a work period of more than 5 hours per day, except as prescribed. Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 9 regulates employment in the transportation industry and requires an employer to provide an employee with a rest period, as specified. Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a meal or rest or recovery period mandated pursuant to an applicable statute, or applicable regulation, standard, or order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, or the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided. Existing law provides certain exemptions from these requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 41	California SB 41 (20232024)	bill	Meal and rest breaks airline cabin crew employees	enacted	Cortese	7	24	5	2022-12-05	2023-03-23	openstates	ocd-bill/ab561fc2-6320-4b86-8c6f-cf06797bbdab	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB41	17f28b977c8e01f4251cd022b891158deac8fd235040b994833560a4edbc83d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 41 (20232024) — Meal and rest breaks: airline cabin crew employees.

Existing law requires an employer to provide an employee with a meal period during a work period of more than 5 hours per day, except as prescribed. Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 9 regulates employment in the transportation industry and requires an employer to provide an employee with a rest period, as specified. Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a meal or rest or recovery period mandated pursuant to an applicable statute, or applicable regulation, standard, or order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, or the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided. Existing law provides certain exemptions from these requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 02/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/23/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB41 (committee substitute) — source
7. 03/17/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 41 Cortese Third Reading Urgency By Kalra — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-12-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 5.
• 2023-01-18 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-01-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-06 Set for hearing February 9.
• 2023-02-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-02-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 171.) (February 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-02-10 Set for hearing February 14.
• 2023-02-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 190.) (February 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-02-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-02-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-02-21 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-02-21 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-02-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-02-27 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 264.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-02-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-16 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 690.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-03-16 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-03-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2023-03-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-03-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 2, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab561fc2-6320-4b86-8c6f-cf06797bbdab. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).