republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-693.md

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Bill	Employees: meal periods.	Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law creates exceptions from this prohibition for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 693	California SB 693 (20252026)	bill	Employees mealperiods	enacted	Cortese	4	20	5	2025-02-21	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/93f2c6ab-f342-4ac1-90ef-018eb3655f20	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB693	77386ca33487e55e0331608fb421a4cd5e5c6e57c5808c69efa4f75e2359d216	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 693 (20252026) — Employees: meal periods.

Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law creates exceptions from this prohibition for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. SB693 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 693 Cortese Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-24 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-04-11 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 967.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-02 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2025-05-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-05-29 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2025-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-10 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-17 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93f2c6ab-f342-4ac1-90ef-018eb3655f20. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).