Bill Text: AZ SB1242 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Salary history information; employers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - Senate read second time [SB1242 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2018-SB1242-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: salary history information; employers

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature

Second Regular Session

2018

 

 

SB 1242

 

Introduced by

Senator Quezada

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 23, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 23-206; relating to employment practices.

 

 

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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 23-206, to read:

START_STATUTE23-206.  Salary history information; provision of pay scale to applicants; applicability

A.  An employer may not:

1.  Rely on the salary history information of an applicant for employment as a factor in determining whether to offer employment to an applicant or what salary to offer an applicant.

2.  Seek salary history information, whether orally or in writing or whether personally or through an agent, about an applicant for employment.

B.  On reasonable request, an employer shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment.

C.  This section applies to all employers, including state and local government employers and the legislature.

D.  This section does not:

1.  Prohibit an applicant from voluntarily and without prompting disclosing salary history information to a prospective employer.  If an applicant voluntarily and without prompting discloses salary history information to a prospective employer, this section does not prohibit that employer from considering or relying on that voluntarily disclosed salary history information in determining the salary for that applicant.

2.  Apply to salary history information that is subject to public disclosure pursuant to federal or state law.

3.  Allow prior salary, by itself, to justify any disparity in compensation. END_STATUTE