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California SB 848 (20232024) — Employment: leave for reproductive loss.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB848 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB848 Rubio et al. Concurrence — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB848 Rubio et al. — 35–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 848 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rubio — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)
• Pellerin — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — principal coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-29 Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2023-04-18 Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2023-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 834.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 897.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-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 as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1186.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 3. Page 1274.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-01 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-27 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3391.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2799.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 724, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ddf4592f-5c44-42ac-b00f-3aff6567a137. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).