republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-949.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Superior court: lactation accommodation."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 949"
citation: "California SB 949 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Superior court", "lactation accommodation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blakespear"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8b830bd-2460-4b55-8441-2e6aed9c27c5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949"
source_hash: "f2bef43888f94cbe7a059064f0463eaae56bfbfc9354a7197174c97883d4e983"
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 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949&version=20230SB94999INT)
2. **03/05/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949&version=20230SB94998AMD)
3. **06/05/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949&version=20230SB94997AMD)
4. **07/18/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949&version=20230SB94995CHP)
5. **SB949** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949)
6. **07/08/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB949&version=20230SB94996ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8b830bd-2460-4b55-8441-2e6aed9c27c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).