BILL NUMBER: AB 402	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to add Section 1308.10 to the Labor Code, relating to
employment, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 402, as introduced, Davis. Employment: entertainment work
permits.
   Existing law requires the written consent of the Labor
Commissioner for the employment of a minor, as specified, in
entertainment productions or as an advertising or photographic model
or as a participant or player in a sport. Under existing law, a minor
is required to obtain an entertainment work permit from the Labor
Commissioner in order to be employed in those capacities.
   This bill would require that a fee of $50 be submitted at the time
the minor applies for the work permit. The bill would specify that
the fee be deposited into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund, which
would be created by the bill, and the bill would continuously
appropriate this revenue to the Labor Commissioner for its costs in
issuing the permit and enforcing the provisions regulating a minor's
employment in fields requiring issuance of an entertainment work
permit. Because the bill would continuously appropriate this revenue
to the Labor Commissioner, it would make an appropriation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1308.10 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   1308.10.  To obtain an Entertainment Work Permit pursuant to
Section 11753 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations an
applicant shall submit to the Labor Commissioner an application and
an application fee of fifty dollars ($50). The Labor Commissioner
shall deposit the fee into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund that is
hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340
of the Government Code, the revenue in the Entertainment Work Permit
Fund is continuously appropriated to the Labor Commissioner to pay
for the costs of issuing entertainment work permits and for enforcing
the provisions of Section 1308.5.