Bill Text: CA SB1350 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Private employment: domestic workers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-02 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB1350 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1350-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 18, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1350
| Introduced by Senator Durazo |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 6307 add and repeal Section 6305.2 of the Labor Code, relating to private employment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1350, as amended, Durazo.
Private employment. employment: domestic workers.
Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, provides the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations with the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over every employment and place of employment in this state which is necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and to protect employees. Existing law requires the chief of the division, or a representative of the chief, to convene an advisory committee for the purposes of creating voluntary guidance and making recommendations to the department and the Legislature on policies the state may adopt to protect the health and safety of privately funded
household domestic service employees. Existing law requires the advisory committee to make recommendations, in consultation with specified entities, on what additional policies may be adopted by the department or the Legislature to protect the health and safety of household domestic service employees.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision. require the department to make recommendations to the Legislature on policies the state may adopt to protect domestic workers from work-related injuries and illnesses, and, in making these recommendations, to consider the recommendations made by the above-described advisory committee. The bill would require the department to release and publicly post the report of its recommendations on its internet website and submit
a copy of the report to the Legislature. The bill would repeal these provisions on September 1, 2029.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 6305.2 is added to the Labor Code, to read:6305.2.
(a) The department shall make recommendations to the Legislature on policies the state may adopt to protect domestic workers from work-related injuries and illnesses.(b) In making these recommendations, the department shall consider the recommendations made by the advisory committee pursuant to Section 6305.1.
(c) The department shall release and publicly post the report of its recommendations on its internet website and submit a copy of the report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature no later than September 1, 2025.
(d) (1) A report to be submitted
pursuant to subdivision (c) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on September 1, 2029.
The division has the power, jurisdiction, and supervision over every employment and place of employment in this state, that is necessary to adequately enforce and administer all laws and lawful standards and orders, or special orders requiring employment and
places of employment to be safe, and requiring the protection of the life, safety, and health of every employee in employment or places of employment.
