BILL NUMBER: AB 1363	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Roger Hernández

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 148 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1363, as introduced, Roger Hernández. Employment: Occupational
Safety and Health Appeals Board.
   Existing law establishes within the Labor and Workforce
Development Agency the California Occupational Safety and Health
Appeals Board to conduct hearings when an employer is served with a
special order relating to occupational safety and health appeals that
order.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
provision.
   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 148 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   148.  (a) There is in the Department of Industrial Relations the
Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, consisting of three
members appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval of the
Senate. One member shall be from the field of management, one shall
be from the field of labor  ,  and one member shall be from
the general public. The public member shall be chosen from 
other than the  fields  other than   of
 management  and   or  labor. Each
member of the appeals board shall devote his  or her  full
time to the performance of his  or her duties.
   (b) The chairman and each member of the appeals board shall
receive the annual salary provided for by Chapter 6 (commencing with
Section 11550) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government
Code.
   (c) The Governor shall designate the chairman of the appeals board
from the membership of the appeals board. The person so designated
shall hold the office of chairman at the pleasure of the Governor.
The chairman shall designate a member of the appeals board to act as
chairman in his  or her  absence.