Bill Text: CA AB3240 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Labor disputes: strikes: health care coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-18 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB3240 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3240
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gray |
February 21, 2020 |
An act to add Section 2803.7 to the Labor Code, and to add Section 17131.12 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to employment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3240, as amended, Gray.
Labor disputes: strike pay. strikes: health care coverage.
Existing law prohibits an employer from discontinuing or changing coverage for medical or other health benefits for its employees without providing specified notice of the termination or change at least 15 days in advance.
This bill would prohibit an employer of 100 or more employees from terminating, reducing, or modifying the employer’s contribution to an employee’s health care coverage while the employee is engaged in a lawful strike.
Existing law, the Personal Income Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as
specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income.
This bill would exclude strike pay, as defined, from gross income for taxation purposes.
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 2803.7 is added to the Labor Code, to read:2803.7.
An employer with 100 or more employees who offers health care coverage for nonoccupational injuries or illness to their employees shall not terminate, reduce, or modify the employer’s contribution to the employee’s health care coverage for the duration of the employee’s participation in a lawful strike.Gross income does not include strike pay, as that term is defined in Section 1259 of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
