Catherine Blakespear
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 38
Author
Existing law generally requires the superior court, as an employer, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified. Existing law requires an employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee desiring to express breast milk for the employee's infant child each time the employee has need to express milk. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, require the superior court to provide any court user who is participating in an ongoing court proceeding with a reasonable amount of break time during a court proceeding to allow the court user to express breast milk for the user's infant child, as specified. The bill would require the Judicial Council to adopt or amend rules of court or forms to implement this requirement on or before January 1, 2026. The bill would require the rules of court or forms to provide a confidential process for the court user to request the break time. The bill would specify that these provisions do not affect existing obligations imposed by law upon a superior court as an employer.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 159, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4932.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6036.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 19).
Coauthors revised.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 4).
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3771.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
Set for hearing April 22.
April 15 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing April 15.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3446.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 2.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 18.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB949 | HTML |
| 01/18/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/05/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/05/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/08/24 - Enrolled | |
| 07/18/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/29/24- Senate Judiciary | |
| 04/23/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/01/24- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 06/17/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 06/27/24- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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