BILL NUMBER: AB 527	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 1174.1 to the Labor Code, relating to
employment.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 527, as amended, Fuentes. Employee complaints: proceedings:
payroll records.
   Under existing law, the Labor Commissioner is authorized to
investigate employee complaints and to provide a hearing in an action
to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation.
   This bill would provide that if the Labor Commissioner finds that
 there is a pattern of falsification of the  payroll records
submitted for any pay period relating to any claim or complaint
brought pursuant to the commissioner's authority  have been
intentionally falsified  , all payroll records relating to
that claim or complaint must be presumed false  and
disregarded  .
   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 1174.1 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   1174.1.   (a)    If the Labor Commissioner finds
that  there is a pattern of intentional falsification of the
 payroll records submitted for any pay period relating to any
claim or complaint brought pursuant to Section 98  have been
intentionally falsified  , all payroll records relating to
that claim or complaint shall be presumed false  and
disregarded  . 
   (b) For purposes of this section, "a pattern of intentional
falsification" means two or more intentionally falsified payroll
records.