employment; labor standards; meal breaks

HB2466 - employment; labor standards; meal breaks

Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Mariana Sandoval, Anna Abeytia, Cesar Aguilar, Lorena Austin, Seth Blattman, Janeen Connolly, Lupe Contreras, Patty Contreras, Quantá Crews, Brian Garcia, Sarah Liguori, Elda Luna-Nájera, Aaron Márquez, Christopher Mathis, Mae Peshlakai, Stephanie Simacek, Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, Myron Tsosie, Betty J Villegas, Lela Alston, Denise “Mitzi” Epstein, Rosanna Gabaldón, Lauren Kuby, Analise Ortiz, Priya Sundareshan
Last action: 2026-01-21
Official status: House second read
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Meal Breaks and Overtime Pay for Employees

This bill requires Arizona employers to provide meal breaks and rest periods to employees and sets rules for overtime pay.

What This Bill Does

Requires employers to give a thirty-minute unpaid meal break if an employee works more than five hours in one day.
Adds another thirty-minute unpaid meal break for working over twelve hours in a single day.
Provides a ten-minute paid rest break every four hours worked.
Pays employees time and a half for overtime up to twelve hours in a workday or on the seventh consecutive day of work.
Pays double the regular rate for any hours worked beyond twelve hours in one day or eight hours on the seventh day.

Who It Names or Affects

Employees who work more than five hours in a single day.
Employers who must follow these new rules about meal breaks and overtime pay.

Terms To Know

Meal Break: A thirty-minute break that employees can take when working over five or twelve hours in one day, without getting paid for this time.
Rest Break: A ten-minute break that employers must pay their workers for every four hours worked.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify when the new rules will start.
It is unclear how many Arizona businesses will be affected by these changes.

Bill History

2026-01-21 House
House second read
2026-01-20 House
House Rules: None
2026-01-20 House
House Commerce: None
2026-01-20 House
House first read

Official Summary Text

HB2466 - employment; labor standards; meal breaks

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REFERENCE TITLE:
employment; labor standards; meal breaks

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2466

Introduced by

Representatives
Sandoval: Abeytia, Aguilar, Austin, Blattman, Connolly, Contreras L,
Contreras P, Crews, Garcia, Liguori, Luna-N�jera, M�rquez, Mathis, Peshlakai,
Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Tsosie, Villegas;� Senators Alston, Epstein,
Gabald�n, Kuby, Ortiz, Sundareshan

AN
ACT

amending title 23, chapter 2, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 23-207; relating to
employment practices and working conditions.

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 23, chapter 2, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 23-207, to read:

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23-207.

Employer requirements; employee breaks; overtime pay; fair labor
standards act

A. An employer shall provide an
employee all of the following:

1. A thirty-minute UNPAID meal
break when working more than five hours in a day and an additional thirty-minute
unpaid meal break when working more than twelve hours in a day.

2. A paid ten-minute rest break
for every four hours worked.

3. One and one-half times the
employee's regular rate of pay for both of the following:

(
a
) The hours
worked of more than eight hours up to and including twelve hours in a WORKDAY.

(
b
) The first
eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.

4. Double the employee's regular rate
of pay for the hours worked of more than both of the following:

(
a
) Twelve
hours in a workday.

(
b
) Eight hours
on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.

B. Notwithstanding any other law, the
fair labor standards act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060; 29 United States Code sections
201 through 219) applies to employers whose annual sales total $100,000 or that
engage in interstate commerce.
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