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Rule not enactedProcess & self-service2024-11-30
California's SB 1446 would have limited grocery self-checkout to two stations per employee freed of other duties; it passed the Senate and died without Assembly action in November 2024
Retail cashier / shop assistantoccupation page →
Event date / reported
2024-11-30
Evidence stage
Rule not enactedA rule that would have constrained or required automation was formally proposed and did not come into force — vetoed, voted down, struck down, or allowed to lapse. It establishes something real and checkable about the legal environment: a guardrail many people assume exists does not. It never moves a task's assessment, because it says nothing about what employers can do or are doing.
Tasks this bears on
Scanning and taking payment
The till: scanning, bagging, payment, receipts.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
California. The bill would have prohibited grocery stores and retail drug establishments from offering self-service checkout unless conditions were met, including having no more than two self-service checkout stations monitored by any one employee and requiring that employee to be relieved of all other duties, and would have required notice before introducing consequential workplace technology. It passed the Senate in May 2024 and its last recorded action is 'From Assembly without further action' on 30 November 2024. This record establishes that the rule does not exist, not that California has no other rules on checkout.
What this means
One state tried to write the staffed till into law, tying machines to a person watching no more than two of them. It did not pass — so where the till stays staffed, that is the retailer's choice, not a legal requirement.
What it does not yet show
A bill that died; it covered grocery and drug stores in one state, and says nothing about what retailers actually did.
What you can check
Open California SB 1446 (2023–2024) and find "no more than 2 self-service checkout stations monitored by any one employee".
Does it change the assessment?
No — and this stage does not move it either. A "Rule not enacted" record is real evidence, but it does not upgrade a task judgement on its own. The 1 linked judgement above stand where they were.
Source
California Legislature — SB 1446 (2023–2024 session), grocery retail store and retail drug establishment self-service checkout; bill history: 11/30/24 From Assembly without further action · verified 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.