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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 310: Failure to pay wages: penalties.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 310 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Failure to pay wages: penalties. Primary sponsor: Scott Wiener (D). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (February 2, 2026): Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law makes every person who fails to pay the wages of each employee subject to a specified penalty. Existing law makes the initial violation subject to a $100 penalty and each subsequent violation, or any willful or intentional violation, subject to a $200 penalty plus 25% of the amount unlawfully withheld. Existing law requires the penalty to either be recovered by an employee as a statutory penalty or by the Labor Commissioner as a civil penalty, as prescribed.

This bill also would permit the $200 penalty for each subsequent violation, or any willful or intentional violation, to be recovered through an independent civil action, as specified.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Scott WienerPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate11
Matt HaneyCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly17
Aisha WahabCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate10

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  2. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  3. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  4. Ordered to second reading.
  5. From inactive file.
  6. Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Wiener.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1195.) (May 23).
  9. Set for hearing May 23.
  10. May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  11. Set for hearing May 5.
  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2. Page 834.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page