AB 1827, as introduced, Patterson. State bodies: administrative and civil penalties.
Existing law authorizes certain state bodies to impose and enforce civil and administrative penalties upon businesses for regulatory violations.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require all state bodies to allow specified businesses to cure minor violations that do not cause actual public harm or physical injury prior to the imposition of civil penalties, administrative penalties, or both. This bill would state legislative findings regarding enforcement programs.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation, notwithstanding any other law, to require all state
3bodies, as defined by Section 11121 of the Government Code, to
4allow businesses that have 50 or fewer full-time employees an
5opportunity to cure minor regulatory violations that did not cause
P2 1actual public harm or physical injury to any person prior to the
2imposition of administrative penalties, civil penalties, or both.
3(b) The Legislature finds and declares that the primary purpose
4of enforcement programs administered by state bodies is to seek
5to bring about compliance with the law, and that financial penalties
6shall only be imposed in the absence of good faith compliance
7efforts or after repeated
violation of rules and regulations, and in
8a manner in which the amount of the financial penalty accurately
9and justly reflects the seriousness of the offense.
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