BILL NUMBER: AB 2046	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Harper

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to amend Section 83 of the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2046, as introduced, Harper. Division of Labor Standards
Enforcement.
   Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement,
as the successor to the Division of Industrial Welfare, within the
Department of Industrial Relations, and sets forth its powers and
duties over labor standards enforcement.
   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 83 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   83.  (a) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement succeeds to,
and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes,
responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division of Industrial
Welfare, which is hereby abolished.
   (b) All powers, duties, purposes, and responsibilities of the
Chief, Division of Industrial Welfare are hereby transferred to the
Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
   (c) Any regulation or other action made, prescribed, issued,
granted, or performed by the abolished Division of Industrial Welfare
in the administration, performance, or implementation of a function
transferred pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall remain
in effect and shall be deemed to be a regulation or action of the
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement unless and until repealed,
modified, or rescinded by  such   the 
division.
   (d) Whenever any reference is made in any law to the abolished
Division of Industrial Welfare it shall be deemed to be a reference
to, and to mean, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.