BILL NUMBER: AB 2389	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 51.7 of the Civil Code, relating to
personal rights.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2389, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Personal rights: freedom
from violence.
   Existing law sets forth various personal rights and provides that
all persons within California have the right to be free from
violence, or intimidation by the threat of violence, because of,
among other characteristics, their race, color, religion, ancestry,
national origin, political affiliation, or sex.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
provisions.
   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 51.7 of the Civil Code is amended to read:
   51.7.  (a) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state have
the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of
violence, committed against their persons or property because of 
any  political affiliation, or on account of any characteristic
listed or defined in subdivision (b) or (e) of Section 51, or 
any  position in a labor dispute, or because another person
perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics. The
identification in this subdivision of particular bases of
discrimination is illustrative rather than restrictive.
   (b) This section does not apply to statements concerning positions
in a labor dispute which are made during otherwise lawful labor
picketing.