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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: "Employment: leave for reproductive loss."
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description: "Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member."
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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 848"
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citation: "California SB 848 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Employment", "leave for reproductive loss"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Rubio"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 30
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2023-02-17"
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last_action: "2023-10-10"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddf4592f-5c44-42ac-b00f-3aff6567a137"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848"
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source_hash: "c9632ce768ce24c69b6ebe08a191a7e61ebb62f63ca6011ae27c6744b0e07f7c"
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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 848 (20232024) — Employment: leave for reproductive loss.
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Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member.
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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. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84899INT)
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2. **03/21/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84898AMD)
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3. **05/18/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84897AMD)
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4. **06/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84896AMD)
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5. **10/10/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84894CHP)
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6. **SB848** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848)
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7. **09/19/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB848&version=20230SB84895ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **13–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB848 Rubio et al. Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading SB848 Rubio et al. — **35–3** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 848 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Rubio — primary (person)
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- Arambula — coauthor (person)
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- Berman — coauthor (person)
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- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- Laird — coauthor (person)
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- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
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- McGuire — coauthor (person)
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- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
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- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk-Silva — principal coauthor (person)
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- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
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- Skinner — coauthor (person)
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- Stern — 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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- **2023-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2023-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
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- **2023-03-01** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-29** Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-11** Set for hearing April 19.
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- **2023-04-18** Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt.
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- **2023-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 834.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 897.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-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 as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1186.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 3. Page 1274.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2023-06-01** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-27** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-07-12** July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3391.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2023-09-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 2799.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2023-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 724, 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/ddf4592f-5c44-42ac-b00f-3aff6567a137`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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