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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use."
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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) ."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "SB 616"
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citation: "California SB 616 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Sick days", "paid sick days accrual and use"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 30
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2023-02-15"
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last_action: "2023-10-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f08b3ed2-710a-4c1e-9342-4376bfda4100"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616"
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source_hash: "31e3fad682ea18d6f18d1b39ed8202ab64e195e9e672857f145f8ddeb0ec44eb"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 616 (20232024) — Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.
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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) .
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61699INT)
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2. **04/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61698AMD)
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3. **06/19/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61697AMD)
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4. **09/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61696AMD)
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5. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61695AMD)
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6. **10/04/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61693CHP)
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7. **SB616** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616)
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8. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB616&version=20230SB61694ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 616 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Haney — **52–18** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading SB616 Gonzalez et al. — **27–9** (pass) · upper
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- Unfinished Business SB616 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — **27–9** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Gonzalez — primary (person)
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- Bryan — coauthor (person)
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- Durazo — coauthor (person)
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- Haney — coauthor (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- Laird — coauthor (person)
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- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
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- Wahab — coauthor (person)
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- Wendy Carrillo — principal coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2023-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
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- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-11** Set for hearing April 19.
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- **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`
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- **2023-04-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-25** Set for hearing May 1.
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- **2023-04-26** May 1 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2023-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
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- **2023-05-08** May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
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- **2023-05-12** Set for hearing May 18.
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- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1384.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2023-06-15** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2023-08-16** August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
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- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 18. Page 3307.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2720.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2023-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 309, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
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## Source
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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).
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