Official Summary Text
SB 1177, as amended, Cortese.
High-Speed Rail Authority: project update report.
Wage statements: airline cabin crew employees.
Existing law requires an employer, semimonthly or at the time of payment of wages, to furnish an employee an accurate, itemized, written statement containing specified information regarding the amounts earned, hours worked, and the employee’s identity, among other things, subject to certain variations. Existing law provides that an itemized wage statement furnished by an employer pursuant to these provisions is not required to show total hours worked by the employee if, among other things, the employee is exempt from the payment of minimum wage and overtime under specified law.
Existing federal law, the Railway Labor Act, regulates labor relations for rail and air carriers and entitles employees to organize and bargain collectively.
This bill would create an exemption from the above-described wage statement requirements with respect to specified airline crew members covered by the Railway Labor Act, as prescribed. The bill would prohibit a person, commencing June 11, 2026, from filing a new legal action by or on behalf of a crew member asserting specified violations of the wage statement requirements.
Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state, with specified powers and duties. Existing law requires the authority to biennially provide a project update report to the Legislature on the development and implementation of intercity high-speed train service. Existing law requires the project update report to include, among other things, the baseline budget for all project phase costs, by segment or contract, and a comparison of the current and projected work schedule and the baseline schedule contained in the California High-Speed Rail Program Revised 2012 Business Plan.
This bill would additionally require the project update report to include (1) an explanation of the assumptions used for financing methods calculations, (2) a comparison of the
current and projected work schedule to projected schedules in previous project update reports, (3) an analysis of potential ancillary revenue sources, and (4) a comparison and benchmarking of cost, scope, and timeline to international high-speed rail projects.