BILL NUMBER: AB 2771	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Labor and Employment (  Monning
  Swanson  (Chair), Bill Berryhill (Vice Chair),
 Eng,  Furutani,  Ma, and Portantino
  Monning, and Yamada )

                        MARCH 1, 2010

   An act to amend Section 226.6 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2771, as amended, Committee on Labor and Employment. Wage
statement: violations.
   Existing law requires an employer to furnish employees with
itemized wage statements containing specified information and to
maintain and permit inspection of records pertaining to the
statements. An employer who fails to do so is guilty of a crime.
   This bill would delete an erroneous cross-reference.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.

   AB 2771, as amended, Committee on Labor and Employment. Wage
statement: violations.
   Existing law requires an employer to furnish employees with
itemized wage statements containing specified information and to
maintain and permit inspection of records pertaining to the
statements. An employer who fails to do so is guilty of a crime.
   This bill would delete an erroneous cross-reference.
   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 226.6 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   226.6.  Any employer who knowingly and intentionally violates the
provisions of Section 226, or any officer, agent, employee,
fiduciary, or other person who has the control, receipt, custody, or
disposal of, or pays, the wages due any employee, and who knowingly
and intentionally participates or aids in the violation of any
provision of Section 226 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars
($1,000) or be imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both, at the
discretion of the court. That fine or imprisonment, or both, shall be
in addition to any other penalty provided by law.
  SECTION 1.  Section 226.6 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   226.6.  Any employer who knowingly and intentionally violates the
provisions of Section 226, or any officer, agent, employee,
fiduciary, or other person who has the control, receipt, custody, or
disposal of, or pays, the wages due any employee, and who knowingly
and intentionally participates or aids in the violation of any
provision of Section 226 is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars
($1,000) or be imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both, at the
discretion of the court. That fine or imprisonment, or both, shall be
in addition to any other penalty provided by law.