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 07/01/25 - Enrolled
 03/26/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/18/25 - Introduced

 AB-751 Rest periods: petroleum facilities: safety-sensitive positions.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/14/2025 09:00 PM

AB751:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 751

 CHAPTER 42

 An act to amend Section 226.75 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 14, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 14, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 751, Gipson.
 Rest periods: petroleum facilities: safety-sensitive positions.

Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a mandated meal or rest or recovery period, as specified. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided.

Existing law provides, until January 1, 2026, an exemption from the rest period requirements for specified employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a petroleum facility, as defined, to the extent that the employee is required to carry and monitor a communication device and to respond to emergencies or is required to remain on employer premises to monitor the premises and respond to emergencies. Existing law requires another
 rest period to be authorized in the case of an interrupted rest period, as prescribed, and, if circumstances do not allow for the employee to take a rest period, requires the employer to pay the employee one hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of pay for the rest period that was not provided.

This bill would extend that exemption indefinitely. The bill would specify that the exemption also applies to employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a refinery that produces fuel through the processing of alternative feedstock.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 226.75 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

226.75.

 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code or of Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 1, the requirement that employees be relieved of all duties during rest periods shall not apply with respect to an employee holding a safety-sensitive position at a petroleum facility or other refinery to the extent that the employee is required to carry and monitor a communication device, such as a radio, pager, or other form of instant communication, and to respond to emergencies, or is required to remain on employer premises to monitor the premises and respond to emergencies.

(b) If a nonexempt
 employee covered by this section is affirmatively required to interrupt that employee’s rest period to address an emergency, another rest period shall be authorized and permitted reasonably promptly after the circumstances that led to the interruption have passed. If circumstances do not allow for the employee to take such a rest period, the employer shall pay the employee one hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of pay for the rest period that was not provided.

(c) An employer that operates a petroleum facility or other refinery shall include, as part of the itemized statement that the employer is required to furnish pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 226, the total hours or pay owed to an employee, as described in subdivision (a), on account
 of a rest period that was not authorized or permitted for the reasons described in subdivision (b) or any other reason.

(d) As used in this section:

(1) “Petroleum facilities” means petroleum refineries, marine and onshore terminals handling crude oil and petroleum products, bulk marketing terminals, asphalt plants, gas plants, catalyst plants, carbon plants, and any other facility involved in the processing, refining, transport, or storage of crude oil or petroleum products.

(2) “Other refinery” means an establishment that produces fuel through the processing of alternative feedstock as described in subdivision (c) of Section 7853.

(3) “Safety-sensitive position” means a job in which the emp