Bill Text: CA AB1065 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employment: unfair practices.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1065 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1065-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1065	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chiu

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 12952 to the Government Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1065, as amended, Chiu. Employment: unfair practices.
   Existing provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing
Act define and prohibit various discriminatory employment practices
to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to
seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment,
or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national
origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical
condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender
identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and
veteran status.
   Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from
engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair
immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of or
intent to retaliate against any person for exercising a protected
right, as specified.
   This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an
employer to request more or different documents than are required
under federal law relating to verification that an individual is not
an unauthorized alien, or to refuse to honor documents tendered that
on their face reasonably appear to be genuine,  or to
discriminate against an immigrant with authorization to work based
upon the specific status or term of status that accompanies the
authorization to work,  or to attempt to reinvestigate or
reverify an incumbent employee's authorization to work unless
required to do so by federal law or authority.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12952 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   12952.  It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer to
request more or different documents than are required under Section
1324a(b) of Title 8 of the United States Code, or to refuse to honor
documents tendered that on their face reasonably appear to be
genuine,  or to discriminate against an immigrant with
authorization to work based upon the specific status or term of
status that accompanies the authorization to work,  or to
attempt to reinvestigate or reverify an incumbent employee's
authorization to work unless required to do so by federal law or
authority.