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Bill	Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.	Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act) , establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees) .	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 616	California SB 616 (20232024)	bill	Sick days paid sick days accrual and use	enacted	Gonzalez	8	30	8	2023-02-15	2023-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/f08b3ed2-710a-4c1e-9342-4376bfda4100	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616	31e3fad682ea18d6f18d1b39ed8202ab64e195e9e672857f145f8ddeb0ec44eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 616 (20232024) — Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.

Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act) , establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees) .

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/19/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/04/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB616 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 616 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Haney — 52–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB616 Gonzalez et al. — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB616 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)
• Wendy Carrillo — principal coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 833.) (April 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-04-26 May 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1384.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 3307.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2720.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f08b3ed2-710a-4c1e-9342-4376bfda4100. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).