BILL NUMBER: SB 255	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Jackson)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2015

   An act to amend Section 8241 of the Government Code, relating to
state government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 255, as introduced, Liu. State government: Commission on the
Status of Women and Girls.
   Existing law creates within the state government the Commission on
the Status of Women and Girls that consists of 17 members, and
specifies that one member is the Chief of the Division of Industrial
Welfare in the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law
abolished the Division of Industrial Welfare and transferred the
duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Chief of
the Division of Industrial Welfare to the Labor Commissioner, who is
the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
   This bill would specify that the Labor Commissioner instead of the
Chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare is a member of the
Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.
   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 8241 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   8241.  (a) There is in the state government the Commission on the
Status of Women and Girls. The commission shall consist of 17 members
to be appointed as follows:
   (1) Three Members of the Senate and one public member appointed by
the Senate Committee on Rules.
   (2) Three Members of the Assembly and one public member appointed
by the Speaker of the Assembly.
   (3) One public member appointed by the Superintendent of Public
 Instruction, and the Chief of the Division of Industrial
Welfare in the Department of Industrial Relations.  
Instruction.  
   (4) The Labor Commissioner.  
   (4) 
    (5)  (A) Seven public members appointed by the Governor,
with the consent of the Senate.
   (B) One of these public members shall be a veteran or a member of
the military.
   (b) The Members of the Legislature shall serve at the pleasure of
the appointing powers.
   (c) Public member appointees of the Speaker of the Assembly and
the Senate Committee on Rules, and appointees of the Governor shall
serve four-year terms. All persons appointed pursuant to Section 2 of
Chapter 1378 of the Statutes of 1965, as amended by Chapter 382 of
the Statutes of 1973, shall continue in office until the expiration
of their term and the appointment of their successors. The appointing
powers may reappoint a member whose term has expired, and shall
immediately fill any vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term in
which it occurs. The appointing powers shall, in making appointments
of public members to the commission, make every effort to ensure
that there is a geographic balance of representation on the
commission.
   (d) All appointees shall hold office until the appointment of
their successors.