BILL NUMBER: SB 1001	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mitchell
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chiu)
   (Coauthor: Senator Vidak)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Eggman and Thurmond)

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to add Section 12952 to the Government Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1001, as introduced, Mitchell. Employment: unfair practices.
   Existing provisions of the California Fair Employment and Housing
Act define and prohibit various discriminatory employment practices
to protect and safeguard the right and opportunity of all persons to
seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment,
or harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national
origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical
condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender
identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and
veteran status.
   Existing law prohibits an employer or any other person from
engaging in, or directing another person to engage in, an unfair
immigration-related practice against a person for the purpose of or
intent to retaliate against any person for exercising a protected
right, as specified.
   This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an
employer to request more or different documents than are required
under federal law relating to verification that an individual is not
an unauthorized alien, or to refuse to honor documents tendered that
on their face reasonably appear to be genuine, or to discriminate
against an immigrant with authorization to work based upon the
specific status or term of status that accompanies the authorization
to work, or to attempt to reinvestigate or reverify an incumbent
employee's authorization to work unless required to do so by federal
law or authority.
   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 12952 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   12952.  It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer to
request more or different documents than are required under Section
1324a(b) of Title 8 of the United States Code, or to refuse to honor
documents tendered that on their face reasonably appear to be
genuine, or to discriminate against an immigrant with authorization
to work based upon the specific status or term of status that
accompanies the authorization to work, or to attempt to reinvestigate
or reverify an incumbent employee's authorization to work unless
required to do so by federal law or authority.