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Bill	Superior court: lactation accommodation.	Existing law generally requires the superior court, as an employer, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 949	California SB 949 (20232024)	bill	Superior court lactation accommodation	enacted	Blakespear	6	26	6	2024-01-18	2024-07-18	openstates	ocd-bill/e8b830bd-2460-4b55-8441-2e6aed9c27c5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949	f2bef43888f94cbe7a059064f0463eaae56bfbfc9354a7197174c97883d4e983	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 949 (20232024) — Superior court: lactation accommodation.

Existing law generally requires the superior court, as an employer, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/05/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB949 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/08/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB949 Blakespear et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 949 Blakespear Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Blakespear — primary (person)
• Boerner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-19 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Set for hearing April 2.
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3446.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2024-04-11 April 15 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3771.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-06 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-06-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6036.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-07-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-07-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4932.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-07-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2024-07-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 159, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8b830bd-2460-4b55-8441-2e6aed9c27c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).