BILL NUMBER: SB 270	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2013

   An act to add Section 106.5 to the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 270, as introduced, Padilla. Underground economy: enforcement
actions.
   Existing law establishes the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the
Underground Economy to combat tax violations and cash-pay employment
and to report to the Legislature on the underground economy by June
30 of each year. The Department of Industrial Relations established
the Labor Enforcement Task Force to help to eliminate the underground
economy by ensuring that employers do not violate wage, hour, and
safety laws by illegally hiring workers.
   This bill would require, to the extent feasible, agencies
participating in either of these groups to coordinate their law
enforcement activities and to exchange information between them
regarding these activities.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 106.5 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   106.5.  Agencies participating in the Joint Enforcement Strike
Force, established pursuant to Section 329 of the Unemployment
Insurance Code, and the Labor Enforcement Task Force, established by
the department, shall, to the degree feasible, coordinate their law
enforcement activities and shall exchange information to better
facilitate their law enforcement activities.