BILL NUMBER: AB 766	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Monning

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 64.6 to the Labor Code, relating to labor
law enforcement.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 766, as introduced, Monning. Labor law enforcement.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations,
led by the Director of Industrial Relations, and charges that agency
with the responsibility for enforcing labor standards, occupational
safety and health standards, and other provisions of law relating to
the welfare of wage earners.
   This bill would provide that nothing in the Labor Code shall limit
the authority of the Attorney General or the district attorney of
any county to prosecute civil or criminal actions for violations of
that code, or to enforce the provisions of that code, without
specific direction from the director.
   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 64.6 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   64.6.  Nothing in this code shall limit the authority of the
Attorney General or the district attorney of any county, either upon
his or her own complaint or the complaint of any person acting for
himself or herself or the general public, to prosecute actions,
either civil or criminal, for violations of this code, or to enforce
the provisions thereof independently and without specific direction
from the director.