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Assembly Bill 2095 (Niello – 2006)
Chapter 737, Statutes of 2006
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Government Code section 12950.1 and Labor Code section 204 were amended in 2006 following legislative approval of Assembly Bill 2095, which affected these two sections only, pertaining to employment practices. (See Exhibit #1f) Assembly member Roger Niello introduced the measure on behalf of the California Employment Law Council on February 17, 2006. (See Exhibits #1a; #3, page 1; and #9, page 1) The author’s file contains a list of the various companies and law firms comprising the Council. (See Exhibit #11, documents A-9 and A-10)
Assembly Bill 2095 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment and the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibits #3 and #7) The fiscal ramifications of the bill were considered by the Assembly Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations. (See Exhibits #2 and #5) Four amendments were made to Assembly Bill 2095. (See Exhibits #1b through #1e and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill on August 28, 2006, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State as Chapter 737 of the Statutes of 2006. (See Exhibits #1f and #2)
The Office of Senate Floor Analyses in its Third Reading analysis of Assembly Bill 2095 as last amended on August 7, 2006, provided the following digest of the measure:
This bill (1) limits the required sexual harassment training for supervisory employees to only those supervisory employees within California, and (2) makes substantive technical adjustments relative to the itemization on employee wage statements of hours worked in excess of the normal work period and payment for such hours of work.
(See Exhibit #9, page 1)