HB2466 • 2026

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

The official bill text defines 'workday' and references the FLSA, but does not explicitly define 'workweek', though it uses the phrase 'seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek'.

HB2466: New Rules for Meal Breaks and Overtime Pay

This law requires Arizona employers to provide specific unpaid meal breaks, paid rest breaks, and extra pay for working long hours or seven days in a row.

What This Bill Does

Requires employers to give an unpaid thirty-minute meal break after five hours of work and another one after twelve hours.
Mandates a paid ten-minute rest break for every four hours worked by an employee.
Orders employers to pay one-and-a-half times the regular rate for hours between eight and twelve in a day or for the first eight hours on the seventh consecutive workday.
Requires double time pay for any hour worked after twelve hours in a day or after eight hours on the seventh consecutive workday.

Who It Names or Affects

Employers who hire workers in Arizona
Employees working more than five hours, four-hour shifts, or seven days in a row

Terms To Know

Workday: A single day when an employee works.
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Federal law that applies to employers with annual sales over $100,000 or those doing business across state lines.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not list an effective date for when these rules start.
The text states the federal Fair Labor Standards Act applies to certain employers but does not explain how it changes if a worker already falls under that law.

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

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

HB2466 - 572R - I Ver

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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