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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 693: Employees: meal periods.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 693 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Employees: meal periods. Primary sponsor: Dave Cortese (D). Most recent recorded action (July 30, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

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

Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes. Existing law creates exceptions from this prohibition for employees in specified occupations, including employees of an electrical corporation, a gas corporation, or a local publicly owned electric utility covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement meeting certain conditions. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions.

This bill would also create an exception from the above-described prohibition for employees of a water corporation, as defined.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Dave CortesePrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate15

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2595.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  7. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9).
  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  9. Referred to Com. on L. & E.
  10. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  12. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

Sources

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