CA SB238 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Senate Bill 238

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Engrossed on June 3 2025 - 50% progression
Action: 2026-07-01 - July 1 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
Pending: Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Summary

An act to add Part 5.7 (commencing with Section 1560) to Division 2 of, and to repeal Section 1563 of, the Labor Code, relating to employment.

Title

Workplace surveillance tools.

Roll Calls

2025-06-25 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] (Y: 5 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-06-03 - Senate - Senate 3rd Reading SB238 Smallwood-Cuevas (Y: 27 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2025-05-23 - Senate - Do pass (Y: 5 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-05-19 - Senate - Placed on suspense file (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2025-04-29 - Senate - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 11 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-04-23 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] (Y: 4 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-07-01	Assembly	July 1 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
2026-06-11	Assembly	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
2025-07-16	Assembly	July 16 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-14	Assembly	Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
2025-07-09	Assembly	July 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-26	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
2025-06-09	Assembly	Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and P. & C.P.
2025-06-04	Assembly	In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
2025-06-03	Senate	Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 1473.) Ordered to the Assembly.
2025-05-23	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23	Senate	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1192.) (May 23).
2025-05-20	Senate	Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-19	Senate	May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-09	Senate	Set for hearing May 19.
2025-05-01	Senate	Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-30	Senate	From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 938.) (April 29).
2025-04-23	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 870.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-04-09	Senate	Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
2025-04-04	Senate	Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-02	Senate	Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
2025-03-26	Senate	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-02-05	Senate	Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-01-30	Senate	From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
2025-01-29	Senate	Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Code Citations

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Labor Code	1560	New Code	See Bill Text
Labor Code	1563	Repealed Code	Citation Text

California State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238#98AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238#97AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238#96AMD
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB238