Bill Text: CA AB2242 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Talent agencies: employment inquiries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-07 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2242 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2242-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2242	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 25, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1700.6 of the Labor Code, relating to
talent agencies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2242, as amended, Davis. Talent agencies: employment inquiries.

   Existing law prohibits a person from operating a talent agency
unless the person has obtained a license from the Labor Commissioner.
Existing law requires an application for a talent agency license to
contain specified information.
   This bill would require that an application for a talent agency
license contain a signature by the applicant attesting that he or she
 has read and understands the contents of any fact sheet on
employment inquiries published by the Department of Industrial
Relations, or that he or she  is familiar with the legal
standards governing employment inquiries. The bill would allow the
 department   Department of Industrial Relations
 to make  such a fact sheet or similar  
the most current  information  regarding legally permissible
inquiries by an employer, as published by the Department of Fair
Employment and Housing,  available to applicants in 
certain   specified  forms.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1700.6 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1700.6.  (a) A written application for a license shall be made to
the Labor Commissioner in the form prescribed by him or her and shall
state all of the following:
   (1) The name and address of the applicant.
   (2) The street and number of the building or place where the
business of the talent agency is to be conducted.
   (3) The business or occupation engaged in by the applicant for at
least two years immediately preceding the date of application.
   (4) If the applicant is other than a corporation, the names and
addresses of all persons, except bona fide employees on stated
salaries, financially interested, either as partners, associates, or
profit sharers, in the operation of the talent agency in question,
together with the amount of their respective interests.
   (5) If the applicant is a corporation, the corporate name, the
names, residential addresses, and telephone numbers of all officers
of the corporation, the names of all persons exercising managing
responsibility in the applicant or licensee's office, and the names
and addresses of all persons having a financial interest of 10
percent or more in the business and the percentage of financial
interest owned by those persons.
   (b) The application shall be accompanied by two sets of
fingerprints of the applicant and affidavits of at least two
reputable residents of the city or county in which the business of
the talent agency is to be conducted who have known, or been
associated with, the applicant for two years, indicating that the
applicant is a person of good moral character or, in the case of a
corporation, has a reputation for fair dealing.
   (c) The application shall contain a signature by the applicant
attesting that he or she  has read and understands the
contents of any fact sheet published by the department regarding
permissible employment inquiries, including any updates thereto, or,
if the department does not publish such a fact sheet, that he or she
is familiar with the legal standards governing the   is
familiar with the legally permissible  inquiries that an
employer may make of employees and applicants for employment. The
 department   Department of Industrial Relations
 may make  any fact sheet on employment inquiries
 available to applicants on its Internet Web site or provide
 information regarding permissible employment inquiries
 in any informational material published by the department
regarding talent agency licenses  the most current guidelines,
fact sheets, or forms published by the Department of Fair Employment
and Housing which describe the legally permissible inquiries that an
employer may make of employees or applicants for employment  .