Bill Text: CA AB2017 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Young workers: resource network.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-24 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 25. [AB2017 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2017-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2017	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 6359 of the Labor Code, relating to labor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2017, as introduced, Atkins. Young workers: resource network.
   Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to
contract with a coordinator to establish a statewide young worker
health and safety resource network. The primary function of the
resource network is to assist in increasing the ability of young
workers and their communities statewide to identify and address
workplace hazards in order to prevent young workers from becoming
injured or ill on the job. The resource network is required to
coordinate and augment existing outreach and education efforts and
provide technical assistance, educational materials and other support
to schools, job training programs, employers and other organizations
working to educate pupils and their communities about workplace
health and safety and child labor law. Existing law provides that the
above-described provisions shall be implemented subject to an
appropriation for those purposes in the 2000-01 Budget Act.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 6359 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   6359.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
   (1) Every year 70 adolescents die from work injuries in the United
States and 200,000 are injured, 70,000 seriously enough to require
hospital treatment. Most of these injuries are preventable.
   (2) A recent report by the Institute of Medicine and the National
Research Council has brought national attention to the need for
better education and interventions to aid injury and illness
prevention efforts aimed at young workers.
   (3) Since 1996, the California Study Group on Young Workers'
Health and Safety, consisting of 30 representatives from key agencies
and organizations involved with California youth employment and
education issues, including representatives from government agencies,
business, labor, parent and teacher organizations, and others, has
met to develop recommendations to better protect and educate
California's young workers.
   (4) The study group recommended the establishment of a Resource
Network on Young Workers' Health and Safety, to assist in increasing
the ability of young workers and their communities to identify and
address workplace hazards in order to prevent young workers from
becoming injured or ill on the job.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of
Industrial Relations, the University of California, the State
Department of Education, the State Department of  Public 
Health  Services  , and the Employment Development
Department cooperatively and individually conduct activities aimed at
the prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses among young
workers.
   (c) The Department of Industrial Relations shall contract with a
coordinator to establish a statewide young worker health and safety
resource network. The primary function of the resource network shall
be to assist in increasing the ability of young workers and their
communities statewide to identify and address workplace hazards in
order to prevent young workers from becoming injured or ill on the
job. The network shall coordinate and augment existing outreach and
education efforts and provide technical assistance, education
materials and other support to schools, job training programs,
employers and other organizations working to educate students and
their communities about workplace health and safety and child labor
laws.
   (d) The resource network shall provide, and the lead center shall
coordinate, services to all key groups throughout the state involved
in education and protecting young workers, including, but not limited
to:
   (1) Teachers.
   (2) Schools.
   (3) Job training programs.
   (4) Employers of youth.
   (5) Parent groups.
   (6) Youth organizations.
   (7) Work permit issuers.
   (e) The resource network shall be advised by a statewide advisory
group, including, but not limited to, representatives from the
Department of Industrial Relations, the Commission on Health and
Safety and Worker's Compensation, the University of California, the
State Department of Education, the Department of  Public 
Health  Services  , and the Employment Development
Department, as well as business, labor, parents, and others
experienced in working with youth doing agricultural and
nonagricultural work. The advisory group shall represent diverse
geographic regions of the state.
   (f) This section shall be implemented subject to the availability
of funding for the purposes of this section in the 2000-01 Budget Act
 (Chapter 52 of the Statutes of 2000)  .