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type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: leave for reproductive loss."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 848"
citation: "California SB 848 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment", "leave for reproductive loss"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddf4592f-5c44-42ac-b00f-3aff6567a137"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848"
source_hash: "c9632ce768ce24c69b6ebe08a191a7e61ebb62f63ca6011ae27c6744b0e07f7c"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84899INT)
2. **03/21/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84898AMD)
3. **05/18/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84897AMD)
4. **06/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84896AMD)
5. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84894CHP)
6. **SB848** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848)
7. **09/19/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84895ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **132** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB848 Rubio et al. Concurrence — **340** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB848 Rubio et al. — **353** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **91** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **50** (pass) · upper
- SB 848 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva — **780** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ddf4592f-5c44-42ac-b00f-3aff6567a137`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).