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type: "Bill"
title: "Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use."
description: "Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act) , establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 616"
citation: "California SB 616 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sick days", "paid sick days accrual and use"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f08b3ed2-710a-4c1e-9342-4376bfda4100"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616"
source_hash: "31e3fad682ea18d6f18d1b39ed8202ab64e195e9e672857f145f8ddeb0ec44eb"
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 616 (20232024) — Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.
Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act) , establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees) .
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61699INT)
2. **04/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61698AMD)
3. **06/19/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61697AMD)
4. **09/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61696AMD)
5. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61695AMD)
6. **10/04/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61693CHP)
7. **SB616** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616)
8. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61694ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 616 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Haney — **5218** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **113** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **41** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB616 Gonzalez et al. — **279** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB616 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — **279** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gonzalez — primary (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — principal coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2023-04-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 833.) (April 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2023-04-26** May 1 hearing postponed by 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. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1384.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-15** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 3307.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2720.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2023-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, 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/f08b3ed2-710a-4c1e-9342-4376bfda4100`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).