Bill Text: AZ HB2502 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Employment; labor standards; meal breaks

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (N/A) - [HB2502 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-HB2502-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: employment; labor standards; meal breaks

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HB 2502

 

Introduced by

Representatives Sandoval: Abeytia, Aguilar, Austin, Blattman, Cavero, Contreras L, Contreras P, Garcia, Liguori, Mathis, Peshlakai, Simacek, Tsosie, Villegas;  Senators Kuby, Miranda, Ortiz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 23, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 23-207; relating to employment practices and working conditions.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 23, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 23-207, to read:

START_STATUTE23-207. Employer requirements; employee breaks; overtime pay; fair labor standards act

A. An employer shall provide an employee all of the following:

1. A thirty-minute UNPAID meal break when working more than five hours in a day and an additional thirty-minute unpaid meal break when working more than twelve hours in a day.

2. A paid ten-minute rest break for every four hours worked.

3. One and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for both of the following:

(a) The hours worked of more than eight hours up to and including twelve hours in a WORKDAY.

(b) The first eight hours worked on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.

4. Double the employee's regular rate of pay for the hours worked of more than both of the following:

(a) Twelve hours in a workday.

(b) Eight hours on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.

B. Notwithstanding any other law, the fair labor standards act of 1938 (52 Stat. 1060; 29 United States Code sections 201 through 219) applies to employers whose annual sales total $100,000 or that engage in interstate commerce.END_STATUTE