All Roll Calls
Yes: 265 • No: 0
CaliforniaSB 4002025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
High-Speed Rail Authority.
Sponsored By: Dave Cortese (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Retroactive pay allowed for clean energy jobs
Employers, contractors, and taxpayers can voluntarily make extra, retroactive wage payments to workers who installed or repaired solar panels, battery storage, inverters, transformers, and related parts at facilities that qualify for federal Inflation Reduction Act incentives. These payments are on top of wages already owed and are made only to help qualify for the federal incentives. Public works projects are not covered. Making a qualifying retroactive payment by itself is not a Labor Code violation. Workers still keep rights to sue for retaliation, discrimination, harassment, willful misclassification, or uncured unpaid wages, and the Labor Commissioner can enforce the law.
Short window for clean energy retro pay
The rules apply only to projects that started on or after January 1, 2023 and finished by December 31, 2024. The law takes effect immediately so workers and employers can use it now. All parts of this article end on January 1, 2029. After that date, these elective retroactive payment rules no longer apply.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Dave Cortese
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 9/12/2025
Item 92 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 38 • No: 0
House vote • 9/11/2025
Item 95 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 80 • No: 0
House vote • 8/28/2025
Item 158 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 74 • No: 0
legislature vote • 8/20/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 15 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/9/2025
Vote in CX14
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Senate vote • 5/8/2025
Item 135 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 36 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/22/2025
Vote in CS59
Yes: 15 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 220, Statutes of 2025.
10/1/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/1/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
9/23/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2968.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/12/2025SenateUrgency clause adopted.
9/12/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/12/2025SenateRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3277.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/11/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
9/3/2025House(Corrected September 18.)
9/3/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/3/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/2/2025HouseAction rescinded whereby bill was read third time, Urgency clause adopted, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
9/2/2025In Assembly. Held at Desk.
8/29/2025HouseOrdered to the Assembly.
8/29/2025SenateAction rescinded whereby bill was re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
8/29/2025Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d).
8/29/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
8/28/2025SenateRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2778.) Ordered to the Senate.
8/28/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
8/25/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
8/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/10/2025HouseFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
6/30/2025HouseRe-referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
6/27/2025HouseJuly 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
6/24/2025House
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/1/2025
Enrolled
9/17/2025
Amended Assembly
9/3/2025
Amended Assembly
8/21/2025
Amended Assembly
6/30/2025
Amended Assembly
6/23/2025
Amended Senate
4/7/2025
Amended Senate
3/27/2025
Introduced
2/14/2025