Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that increases the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour beginning in 2025.

Highlights:

• Establishes five different minimum wage schedules for specific health care employees (Sec. 1). 

• Requires any covered health care facility employer with over 10,000 employees and other specified facilities to have a minimum wage of $23 by 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Require any hospital with a high government payor mix or other specified health care facility type to establish a minimum wage of $18 by June 1st 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Require specified clinics to establish a minimum wage of $21 per hour by 202r (Sec. 1). 

• Requires all other health care facility employees to receive a minimum wage of $21 per hour by 2026 (Sec. 1). 

• Require licensed nursing facilities to have a minimum wage of $21 by 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that the state requirements for wages are enforceable by the labor commissioner (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to develop a waiver program that would allow for an alternative schedule for the implementation of the new minimum wage requirements (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits any ordinance or regulation from superseding the wage requirements set forth by this act (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to amend and pass a bill that increases the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour beginning in 2025.

Highlights:

• Establishes five different minimum wage schedules for specific health care employees (Sec. 1). 

• Requires any covered health care facility employer with over 10,000 employees and other specified facilities to have a minimum wage of $23 by 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Require any hospital with a high government payor mix or other specified health care facility type to establish a minimum wage of $18 by June 1st 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Require specified clinics to establish a minimum wage of $21 per hour by 202r (Sec. 1). 

• Requires all other health care facility employees to receive a minimum wage of $21 per hour by 2026 (Sec. 1). 

• Require licensed nursing facilities to have a minimum wage of $21 by 2024 (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that the state requirements for wages are enforceable by the labor commissioner (Sec. 1). 

• Requires the Department of Industrial Relations to develop a waiver program that would allow for an alternative schedule for the implementation of the new minimum wage requirements (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits any ordinance or regulation from superseding the wage requirements set forth by this act (Sec. 1).

Full Bill Text