BILL NUMBER: AB 552	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1310 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 552, as introduced, Morrell. Employment: minors.
   Existing law specifies limitations on the employment of a minor.
Existing law also provides that those limitations shall not prohibit
or prevent the appearance of a minor in a church, public or religious
school, or community entertainment, among other things.
   This bill would define community entertainment to mean performing
arts events, including dance, music, opera, and theater arts,
produced by nonprofit organizations in which members of the community
are invited to participate as nonprofessional members of the cast,
crew, ensemble, troupe, staff, or production.
   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 1310 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1310.  Nothing in this article or Article 2 (commencing with
Section 1390) of Chapter 3 shall prohibit or prevent:
   (a) The appearance of any minor in any church, public or religious
school, or community entertainment.  "Community entertainment"
means performing arts events, including dance, music, opera, and
theater arts, produced by non   profit organizations in
which members of the community are invited to participate as non
  professional members of the cast, crew,  
ensemble, troupe, staff, or production. 
   (b) The appearance of any minor in any school entertainment or in
any entertainment for charity or for children, for which no admission
fee is charged.
   (c) The appearance of any minor in any radio or television
broadcasting exhibition, where the minor receives no compensation
directly or indirectly therefor, and where the engagement of the
minor is limited to a single appearance lasting not more than one
hour, and where no admission fee is charged for the radio
broadcasting or television exhibition.
   (d) The appearance of any minor at any one event during a calendar
year, occurring on a day on which school attendance is not required
or on the day preceding  such a   that 
day, lasting four hours or less, where a parent or guardian of the
minor is present, for which the minor does not directly or indirectly
receive any compensation.