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type: "Bill"
title: "Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 461"
citation: "California SB 461 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Days and hours of work", "religious or cultural observance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wahab"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0aebed9-4f0d-438e-845f-44352c74a07f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461"
source_hash: "0d2ca118edc56160b9bf4f1a2afc28c94a84d902a063e43453519dd5f6cfd0af"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46199INT)
2. **03/23/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46198AMD)
3. **05/03/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46197AMD)
4. **06/29/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46196AMD)
5. **09/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46195AMD)
6. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46193CHP)
7. **SB461** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461)
8. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB461&version=20230SB46194ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- SB 461 Wahab Consent Calendar Second Day — **750** (pass) · lower
- SB 461 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Gabriel — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB461 Wahab et al. — **400** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB461 Wahab et al. Concurrence — **400** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0aebed9-4f0d-438e-845f-44352c74a07f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).