BILL NUMBER: AB 1364	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1700.47 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1364, as introduced, Campos. Employment: discrimination.
   Existing law prohibits a talent agency from discriminating against
an artist based upon specified criteria.
   Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act,
protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to
seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination based upon
race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical
disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status,
sex, age, or sexual orientation.
   This bill would expand the list of criteria based upon which a
talent agency may not discriminate against an artist to include those
identified in the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
   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 1700.47 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   1700.47.  It shall be unlawful for any licensee to  refuse
to represent any artist on account of that artist's race, color,
creed, sex, national origin, religion, or handicap.  
discriminate against an artist on the basis of race, religious creed,
color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental
disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual
orientation, or any other form of discrimination prohibited under
  Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12920) of Part 2.8 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.