SB 628: Employment: employer contributions: employee withholdings: credit: agricultural employees.

Official summary

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

The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on taxable income, as provided. Under existing law, every employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, is required to deduct and withhold from those wages, except as provided, for each payroll, a tax computed in an amount substantially equivalent to the amount reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law. Under existing law, every employer required to withhold those taxes is required to, for each calendar quarter, file a withholding report, a quarterly return, and a report of wages in a form prescribed by the Employment Development Department, and pay over the taxes required to be withheld.

This bill would authorize an employer to claim a credit in an amount equal to the amount of overtime wages, as defined, paid during that quarter to specified agricultural employees covered by a certain wage order. The bill would require the credit to be claimed on the employer’s report of contributions, quarterly return, and report of wages, or in an electronic funds transfer, as specified. The bill would prohibit the total amount claimed in any given quarter from exceeding the amount that would have been remitted for that quarter to the Employment Development Department for employee withholdings.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 6

“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. February 2, 2026Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2. April 23, 2025April 23 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 1. Noes 4. Page 870.) Reconsideration granted.
3. April 4, 2025Set for hearing April 23.
4. April 2, 2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
5. March 5, 2025Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
6. February 21, 2025From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
7. February 20, 2025Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.