CaliforniaRest periods: petroleum facilities: safety-sensitive positions.
What it does
Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a mandated meal or rest or recovery period, as specified. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided.
More detail
Existing law provides, until January 1, 2026, an exemption from the rest period requirements for specified employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a petroleum facility, as defined, to the extent that the employee is required to carry and monitor a communication device and to respond to emergencies or is required to remain on employer premises to monitor the premises and respond to emergencies. Existing law requires another rest period to be authorized in the case of an interrupted rest period, as prescribed, and, if circumstances do not allow for the employee to take a rest period, requires the employer to pay the employee one hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay for the rest period that was not provided.
This bill would extend that exemption indefinitely. The bill would specify that the exemption also applies to employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a refinery that produces fuel through the processing of alternative feedstock.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Jul 14Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Jul 14Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Jul 3Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.To Governor
- Jun 27In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 27Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1809.).Passed Senate
- Jun 24Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 23From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Jun 11From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- May 21Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.Minor
- May 8In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 751 Gipson Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 8Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1486.)Passed Assembly
- May 1Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 30From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 3From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 2
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 27Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.Minor
- Mar 26From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 3Referred to Com. on L. & E.Minor
- Feb 19From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- Feb 18Read first time. To print.Introduced