Bill Text: CA AB2827 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Employment regulation: immigration enforcement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-18 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Held without recommendation. [AB2827 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2827-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2827

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Introduced by Assembly Member Travis Allen

February 16, 2018

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An act relating to employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2827, as introduced, Travis Allen. Employment regulation: immigration enforcement.

Existing law imposes various requirements on public and private employers with regard to federal immigration agency immigration worksite enforcement actions, including, except as otherwise required by federal law, prohibiting an employer or other person acting on the employer’s behalf from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter nonpublic areas of a place of labor unless the agent provides a judicial warrant or to access, review, or obtain the employer’s employee records without a subpoena or court order, except as specified.

Existing law, except as required by federal law, requires an employer to provide a current employee notice containing specified information, by posting in the language the employer normally uses to communicate employment information, of an inspection of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms or other employment records conducted by an immigration agency within 72 hours of receiving the federal notice of inspection.

Existing law, except as required by federal law, prohibits an employer from reverifying the employment eligibility of a current employee at a time or in a manner not required by specified federal law.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would protect a private citizen who chooses to uphold federal statute within the context of these provisions of existing law and would make a finding and declaration about the importance of protecting California citizens and businesses from prosecution for following federal law.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares it is important to protect California citizens and businesses from prosecution for following federal law.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would protect a private citizen who chooses to uphold federal statute within the context of Sections 7285.1, 7285.2, and 7285.3 of the Government Code and Sections 90.2 and 1019.2 of the Labor Code.