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Bill	Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance.	Existing law generally entitles a state employee to be given time off with pay for specified holidays and entitles a state employee to one personal holiday per fiscal year. Existing law authorizes the department head or designee to require the employee to provide 5 working days' advance notice before a personal holiday is taken, to deny use subject to operational needs, and to provide by rule for the granting of the personal holiday for employees. Existing law authorizes a state employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for certain holidays in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 461	California SB 461 (20232024)	bill	Days and hours of work religious or cultural observance	enacted	Wahab	8	35	7	2023-02-13	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d0aebed9-4f0d-438e-845f-44352c74a07f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461	0d2ca118edc56160b9bf4f1a2afc28c94a84d902a063e43453519dd5f6cfd0af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 461 (20232024) — Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance.

Existing law generally entitles a state employee to be given time off with pay for specified holidays and entitles a state employee to one personal holiday per fiscal year. Existing law authorizes the department head or designee to require the employee to provide 5 working days' advance notice before a personal holiday is taken, to deny use subject to operational needs, and to provide by rule for the granting of the personal holiday for employees. Existing law authorizes a state employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for certain holidays in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB461 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 461 Wahab Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 461 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB461 Wahab et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB461 Wahab et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 712.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2023-04-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-03 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1222.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-26 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2742.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-17 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-08-24 Ordered to the Assembly.
• 2023-08-24 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
• 2023-08-31 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3
• 2023-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2957.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2470.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 398, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d0aebed9-4f0d-438e-845f-44352c74a07f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).