Bill Text: CA AB332 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 332

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Bill Title: Employment: agricultural workers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2026-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB332 Detail]

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 332

Introduced by Assembly Member Alanis

January 28, 2025

An act to amend Section 9110 of the Labor Code, relating to employment safety.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 332, as introduced, Alanis. Employment safety: agricultural workers.

Existing law requires that an employer provide wildfire smoke training in a language and manner readily understandable by employees, taking into account their ethnic and cultural backgrounds and education levels, including the use of pictograms, as necessary.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that law.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 9110 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

9110.

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Agricultural employee” means a person employed in any of the following:

(A) An agricultural occupation, as defined in Wage Order No. 14 of the Industrial Welfare Commission.

(B) An industry preparing agricultural products for the market, on the farm, as defined in Wage Order No. 13 of the Industrial Welfare Commission.

(2) “Board” means the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.

(3) “Wildfire smoke” means emissions from fires in “wildlands,” as defined in Section 3402 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, or in adjacent developed areas.

(b) The division shall review and update the content of the training prescribed in Section 5141.1 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations, and shall thereafter post it on its internet website.

(c) The training provided by the employer ~~is required to~~ shall be in a language and manner readily understandable by employees, taking into account their ethnic and cultural backgrounds and education levels, including the use of pictograms, as necessary.