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SB-464 • 2026

Employer pay data.

Employer pay data.

Housing Labor
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Smallwood-Cuevas
Last action
2025-10-13
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 760, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how civil penalties are determined or enforced beyond requiring courts to impose them upon request from the department.

Employer Pay Data Reporting

This law requires employers with at least 100 employees to submit detailed pay data reports and store demographic information separately from employee records, starting in 2027.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires employers with 100 or more workers to send an annual report about how much they pay their employees based on race, ethnicity, gender, and job type.
  • Increases the number of job categories for reporting from 10 to 23 starting in January 2027.
  • Makes sure that any information collected for these reports is kept separate from regular employee files.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Employers with at least 100 employees
  • The Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency

Terms To Know

Civil penalty
A fine that a court can order an employer to pay if they do not follow the law about reporting pay data.
Demographic information
Details about people like their race, ethnicity, and gender.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens to employers with fewer than 100 employees.
  • It is unclear how the new job categories will be defined or used in practice.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-13 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 760, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-13 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-22 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-09-10 California Legislative Information

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2836.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 7. Page 3083.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. 2025-09-05 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to third reading.

  8. 2025-09-05 California Legislative Information

    Read third time and amended.

  9. 2025-09-05 California Legislative Information

    Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.

  10. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  11. 2025-09-02 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  12. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 29).

  13. 2025-08-20 California Legislative Information

    August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  14. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. 2025-07-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 8).

  16. 2025-06-26 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  17. 2025-06-09 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.

  18. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  19. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 1405.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  20. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  21. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1201.) (May 23).

  22. 2025-05-20 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 23.

  23. 2025-05-19 California Legislative Information

    May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  24. 2025-05-09 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 19.

  25. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  26. 2025-04-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 940.) (April 29).

  27. 2025-04-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 870.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

  28. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.

  29. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.

  30. 2025-04-04 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 23.

  31. 2025-03-12 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

  32. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  33. 2025-02-19 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 464, Smallwood-Cuevas.
Employer pay data.
Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status.
Existing law requires a private employer that has 100 or more employees to submit an annual pay data report to the Civil Rights Department that includes the number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex in 10 specified job categories, the number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex whose pay falls within federal pay bands, within each job category the median and mean hourly rate for employees having any combination of those characteristics, and the total number of hours worked by each employee counted in each
pay band during the “Reporting Year,” as specified.
This bill would require an employer to collect and store any demographic information gathered by an employer or labor contractor for the purpose of submitting the pay data report separately from employees’ personnel records, and, beginning January 1, 2027, increase the number of job categories, as specified above, to 23.
Existing law authorizes the department, if it does not receive the pay data report, to seek an order requiring an employer to comply with these provisions. Existing law provides that upon the request of the department, a court may impose a civil penalty upon any employer for failure to file the required report, which shall be payable to the Civil Rights Enforcement and Litigation Fund.
This bill would require a court to impose a civil penalty against an employer that fails to file the report if requested to do so
by the department.

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