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                                                                  AB 2771
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          Date of Hearing:   May 5, 2010

                     ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
                                Sandre Swanson, Chair
              AB 2771 (Committee on Labor and Employment) - As Amended:   
                                    April 8, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :   Wage statement: violations.

           SUMMARY  :   Deletes the reference of a repealed statute in Labor  
          Code section 226.6.  

           EXISTING LAW  

          1)Requires an employer to furnish employees with itemized wage  
            statements containing specified information and to maintain  
            and permit inspection of records pertaining to the statements.  
            An employer who fails to do so is guilty of a crime.

          2)Provides for misdemeanor liability and a fine and/or  
            imprisonment for the knowing and intentional violation of  
            Labor Code sections 226 or 226.2.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   Unknown

           COMMENTS  :   This bill is a code clean up bill sponsored by the  
          Conference of California Bar Associations that amends Labor Code  
          section 226.6 to delete reference to a repealed statute, Labor  
          Code section 226.2.

          The sponsor of the bill states that the Legislature repealed  
          Labor Code section 226.2 in 1987, but neglected to remove the  
          reference to the repealed statute in Labor Code section 226.6.   
          This continued reference to a repealed statute in Labor Code  
          section 226.6 is obsolete and confusing, and should be corrected  
          by removal of the reference.  This bill will accomplish this  
          needed cleanup.

          A prior bill, AB 3060 (Committee on Labor and Employment),  
          Chapter 55, Statutes of 2008 remedied a similar outdated  
          reference to Labor Code section 226.2.

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 








                                                                 AB 2771
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          Conference of California Bar Associations (sponsor)

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Lorie Erickson / L. & E. / (916)  
          319-2091