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 02/20/25 - Introduced

 SB-628 Employment: employer contributions: employee withholdings: credit: agricultural employees.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/02/2025 09:00 PM

SB628:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 02, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 628

Introduced by Senator Grove
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Hoover, and Macedo)

February 20, 2025

 An act to add Division 6.1 (commencing with Section 13200) to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 628, as amended, Grove.
 Employment: employer contributions: employee withholdings: credit: agricultural employees.

The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes on taxable income, as provided. Under existing law, every employer who pays wages to a resident employee for services performed either within or without this state, or to a nonresident employee for services performed in this state, is required to deduct and withhold from those wages, except as provided, for each payroll, a tax computed in an amount substantially equivalent to the amount reasonably estimated to be due under the Personal Income Tax Law. Under existing law, every employer required to withhold those taxes is required to, for each calendar quarter, file a withholding report, a quarterly return, and a report of wages in a form prescribed by the Employment Development Department, and pay over the taxes required to be withheld.

This bill would authorize an employer to claim a credit in an
 amount equal to the amount of overtime wages, as defined, paid during that quarter to specified agricultural employees covered by a certain wage order. The bill would require the credit to be claimed on the employer’s report of contributions, quarterly return, and report of wages, or in an electronic funds transfer, as specified. The bill would prohibit the total amount claimed in any given quarter from exceeding the amount that would have been remitted for that quarter to the Employment Development Department for employee withholdings.

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.

 The Legislature finds and declares all the following:

(a) California’s agricultural industry is facing historic economic challenges. A few thousand California farmers and ranchers will likely go out of business in the next two or three years.

(1) Climate change-induced drought has caused California’s irrigated farmland to shrink by 752,000 acres in the last five years. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, the number of California
 farms fell 10.5 percent between 2017 and 2022, a decrease of 7,387 farms. In 2024, the United States Secretary of Agriculture called the numbers in the 2022 Census of Agriculture a “wake-up call.”

(2) The Department of Food and Agriculture reported that in 2023, California’s farms and ranches received $59.4 billion in cash receipts for their output. This represents a 1.4-percent increase in cash receipts compared to the previous year. This was significantly behind California’s inflation rate in 2023 that was 3.9 percent as measured by the California Consumer Price Index. This means that in 2023, California’s agricultural industry was $1.5 billion behind simply keeping up with inflation, which would have been breaking even.

(3) In January 2024, at the State of the Industry at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, the California wine industry was urged to remove 50,000 acres of
 grapevines statewide to correct the oversupply issue. In 2024, the French government saw the same problem and allocated €120,000,000 in subsidies aimed at funding the permanent removal of vineyards. Their objective was to remove up to 100,000 hectares of vineyards in France. In 2023, the French government provided $215,000,000 in funding to wineries to sell off their surplus wine. To date, California has provided no similar financial support for California wineries and vineyards that are competing in a global market.

(4) In August 2024, AgWest Farm