Bill Text: CA AB1516 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1516

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Bill Title: Labor and Workforce Development Agency: working group: minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-01 - Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. [AB1516 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1516-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly March 23, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1516

Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra

February 17, 2023

An act to ~~amend Section 92 of~~ add Section 1182.14 to the Labor Code, relating to employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1516, as amended, Kalra. ~~Division of Labor Standards Enforcement: enforcement power.~~ Labor and Workforce Development Agency: working group: minimum wage.

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to, among other things, foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner within the Department of Industrial Relations, and requires the division to ascertain the wages paid to all employees in this state, to ascertain the hours and conditions of labor and employment in the various occupations, trades, and industries in which employees are employed in this state, and to investigate the health, safety, and welfare of those employees.
This bill would require the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to convene a working group to study and evaluate topics related to the minimum wage in California. The bill would require the working group to submit to the Legislature, on or before July 1, 2024, a report that outlines recommendations for raising the minimum wage for all workers in California.
Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement under the direction of the Labor Commissioner within the Department of Industrial Relations and sets forth its powers and duties of the commissioner and the commissioner’s deputies and agents, including the power to issue subpoenas for the purpose of carrying out the laws under their jurisdiction.
~~This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.~~

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 1182.14 is added to the Labor Code, to read:

1182.14.
(a) The Labor and Workforce Development Agency shall convene, until July 1, 2024, a working group consisting of representatives from the Labor Commissioner’s office, the Employment Development Department, organizations representing low-wage or immigrant workers, and organizations advocating for the rights of incarcerated persons to study and evaluate, at a minimum, the following topics related to the minimum wage in California:
(1) Raising the state minimum wage.
(2) Utilization rates of the state social safety net by minimum wage workers.
(3) The role of the California Strategic Enforcement Partnership in state minimum wage enforcement efforts.
(4) The socio-economic benefits of ending the sub-minimum wage for incarcerated workers.
(b) The working group shall submit to the Legislature, on or before July 1, 2024, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, a report that outlines recommendations for raising the minimum wage for all workers in California.

SECTION 1.Section 92 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
92.
The Labor Commissioner, and the commissioner’s deputies and agents, may issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and parties and the production of books, papers and records; administer oaths; examine witnesses under oath; take the verification, acknowledgment, or proof of written instruments; and take depositions and affidavits for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this code and all laws which the division is to enforce.