Bill Text: CA SB1167 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employment safety: indoor workers: heat regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 839, Statutes of 2016. [SB1167 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1167-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1167	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leyva

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 6720 to the Labor Code, relating to employee
safety.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1167, as amended, Leyva. Employment safety: indoor workers:
heat regulations.
   Under existing law, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1973, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigates
complaints that a workplace is not safe and may issue orders
necessary to ensure employee safety.  Under existing law, certain
violations of that act or a standard, order, or special order
authorized by the act are a crime.  Under existing law, the
division has adopted regulations establishing a heat illness
prevention standard for outdoor workers.
   This bill would require the division, by July 1,  2017,
  2018,  to propose to the  standards board
  Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board 
for its adoption, a heat illness and injury prevention standard
applicable to indoor  workers that provides equal or greater
protection.   workers. The bill would specify that this
requirement does not prohibit the division from proposing, or the
standards board from adopting, a standard that limits the application
of high heat provisions to certain industry sectors.  Because
this bill would expand the definition of an existing crime, it would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 6720 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   6720.  By July 1,  2017,   2018,  the
division shall propose to the standards board for its review and
adoption a standard that  protects the health and safety of
indoor workers from   minimizes  heat-related
illness and  injury. The standard shall offer protections for
indoor workers that meet or exceed the protections for outdoor
places of employment.   injury among indoor workers.
This section does not prohibit the division from proposing, or the
standards board from adopting, a standard that limits the application
of high heat provisions to certain industry sectors. 
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.