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Yes: 177 • No: 32
CaliforniaSB 2942025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014.
Sponsored By: Eloise Gómez Reyes (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Penalties and anti-retaliation for workers
The Labor Commissioner and public prosecutors enforce this law and can investigate and go to court. Employers cannot fire, threaten, demote, suspend, or punish you for using your rights, filing complaints, or helping an investigation. Courts can order temporary relief, award punitive damages, and require employers to pay your attorney’s fees and costs. For general violations, penalties can reach up to $500 per employee per violation. For the emergency‑contact rule, penalties can be up to $500 per employee per day, capped at $10,000 per employee; a case can recover either a statutory penalty paid to you or a civil penalty (not both), and you can sue where the violation happened or where the employer does business.
Emergency contact notice after work arrests
If you opt in, your employer must tell your emergency contact if you are arrested or detained at the worksite. If it happens during work hours or while doing job duties offsite, the employer must notify the contact only if they actually know. Employers must let current workers name a contact by March 30, 2026 and let new hires do so at hiring. You can update the contact anytime and choose when the contact should be told.
Yearly workplace rights notice for workers
By Feb 1, 2026, employers must give each current worker a stand-alone written notice of key rights, and then every year. New hires get it at hiring, and your authorized representative (your exclusive union) gets it each year. The notice explains workers’ comp benefits, immigration inspection notice and protections, union rights, and your Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights at work. Employers must use a state template language the worker understands when available, keep records for three years, and may link to the state video to help meet notice duties. The Labor Commissioner posts the template by Jan 1, 2026 (in many languages) and videos by July 1, 2026, and updates materials each year.
Union contracts can override, local rules stand
A union contract can replace parts of this law if the waiver is written clearly and unambiguously in the agreement. Cities and counties can keep or pass workplace rules that are as strong as or stronger than this state law. Workers in those places keep the stronger local protections.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Eloise Gómez Reyes
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Jesse ArreguÃn
Democratic • Senate
Sabrina Cervantes
Democratic • Senate
Maria Elena Durazo
Democratic • Senate
Mark Mark González
Democratic • House
John Laird
Democratic • Senate
Liz Ortega
Democratic • House
Scott Wiener
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 9/13/2025
Item 143 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 29 • No: 8
House vote • 9/12/2025
Item 44 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 67 • No: 8
legislature vote • 8/29/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 11 • No: 1
legislature vote • 7/8/2025
Vote in CX13
Yes: 10 • No: 1
legislature vote • 6/25/2025
Vote in CX14
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/28/2025
Item 135 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 28 • No: 10
legislature vote • 5/23/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 5 • No: 1
legislature vote • 5/19/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 5 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/29/2025
Vote in CS53
Yes: 11 • No: 2
legislature vote • 4/23/2025
Vote in CS56
Yes: 4 • No: 1
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 667, Statutes of 2025.
10/12/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/12/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
9/23/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3031.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/13/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/13/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 8. Page 3411.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/12/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/4/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
9/4/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
9/3/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
9/2/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 29).
8/29/2025HouseAugust 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/9/2025HouseFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
7/1/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
6/26/2025HouseReferred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.
6/5/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
5/28/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1289.) Ordered to the Assembly.
5/28/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
5/23/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1194.) (May 23).
5/23/2025SenateSet for hearing May 23.
5/20/2025SenateMay 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
5/19/2025SenateSet for hearing May 19.
5/9/2025SenateRead second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
5/1/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 938.) (April 29).
4/30/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/12/2025
Enrolled
9/17/2025
Amended Assembly
9/4/2025
Amended Assembly
9/2/2025
Amended Assembly
7/1/2025
Amended Senate
5/1/2025
Amended Senate
3/17/2025
Introduced
2/6/2025