BILL NUMBER: AB 2416	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Stone

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act relating to liens.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2416, as introduced, Stone. Liens: laborers and employees.
   Existing law grants specified persons, including laborers, as
defined, who contribute labor, skill, or services to a work of
improvement the right to record a mechanics lien upon the property so
improved.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would specify a procedure for various classes of
laborers to effectuate a lien for unpaid wages and allow employees to
effectuate a lien on the property of their employer for unpaid
wages.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would specify a procedure for various classes of
laborers to effectuate a lien for unpaid wages, and allow employees
to effectuate a lien on the property of their employer for unpaid
wages.