Bill Text: CA AB2989 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Talent agencies: licensure.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-17 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2989 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2989-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2989
| Introduced by Assembly Member Wallis |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 1700.5 of the Labor Code, relating to talent agencies.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2989, as introduced, Wallis.
Talent agencies: licensure.
Existing law requires talent agencies to be licensed by the Labor Commissioner and to comply with specified employment laws applicable to talent agencies. Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California.
This bill would exempt an attorney licensed under the State Bar Act from the requirement to be licensed as a talent agency.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1700.5 of the Labor Code is amended to read:1700.5.
(a) No person shall engage in or carry on the occupation of a talent agency without first procuring a license therefor from the Labor Commissioner. The license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the licensee. The license number shall be referred to in any advertisement for the purpose of the solicitation of talent for the talent agency.(b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to a person licensed as an attorney under the State Bar Act (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 6000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions
Code).
Licenses
(c) Licenses issued for talent agencies prior to before the effective date of this chapter shall not be invalidated thereby, but renewals of those licenses shall be obtained in the manner prescribed by this chapter.
