BILL NUMBER: SB 666	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 53 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 666, as introduced, Steinberg. Employment.
   Existing law defines the phrase "head of the department" to refer
to the Director of Industrial Relations in specified circumstances.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
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 53 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   53.  Whenever in Section 1001  of  or in Part 1
(commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of  ,
 the Government Code "head of the department" or similar
designation occurs, the  same shall   phrase
shall mean  , for the purposes of this code,  mean
 the director, except that in respect to matters which by
the express provisions of this code are committed to or retained
under the jurisdiction of the Division of Workers' Compensation, the
State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Occupational Safety and Health
Standards Board, the Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board,
or the Industrial Welfare Commission the designation shall mean the
Division of Workers' Compensation, the Administrative Director of the
Division of Workers' Compensation, the Workers' Compensation Appeals
Board, the State Compensation Insurance Fund, the Occupational
Safety and Health Standards Board, the Occupational Safety and Health
Appeals Board, or the Industrial Welfare Commission, as the case may
be.