BILL NUMBER: AB 1706	CHAPTERED  08/30/04

	CHAPTER  369
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 30, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 27, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 5, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 6, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 10, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 15, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Judiciary (Corbett (Chair), Dutra,
Hancock, Jackson, Laird, Longville, Montanez, Steinberg, and Vargas)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2003

   An act to amend Section 5290 of the Family Code, relating to
assignment orders.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1706, Committee on Judiciary.  Assignment orders:  support:
employment.
   Existing law provides a mechanism for the enforcement of support
obligations.  Existing law requires the court to include in its order
an assignment order that requires an employer of an obligor to pay
to the obligee a portion of the obligor's earnings.  Existing law
prohibits that employer from using an assignment order as grounds for
refusing to hire a person or for discharging or taking disciplinary
action against an employee.
   This bill would further prohibit an employer from using an
assignment order as grounds for denying a promotion to an employee or
for taking any other action adversely affecting the terms and
conditions of employment of an employee.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 5290 of the Family Code is amended to read:
   5290.  No employer shall use an assignment order authorized by
this chapter as grounds for refusing to hire a person, or for
discharging, taking disciplinary action against, denying a promotion
to, or for taking any other action adversely affecting the terms and
conditions of employment of, an employee.  An employer who engages in
the conduct prohibited by this section may be assessed a civil
penalty  of a maximum of five hundred dollars ($500).