BILL NUMBER: AB 402INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Davis FEBRUARY 23, 2009 An act to add Section 1308.10 to the Labor Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 402, as introduced, Davis. Employment: entertainment work permits. Existing law requires the written consent of the Labor Commissioner for the employment of a minor, as specified, in entertainment productions or as an advertising or photographic model or as a participant or player in a sport. Under existing law, a minor is required to obtain an entertainment work permit from the Labor Commissioner in order to be employed in those capacities. This bill would require that a fee of $50 be submitted at the time the minor applies for the work permit. The bill would specify that the fee be deposited into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund, which would be created by the bill, and the bill would continuously appropriate this revenue to the Labor Commissioner for its costs in issuing the permit and enforcing the provisions regulating a minor's employment in fields requiring issuance of an entertainment work permit. Because the bill would continuously appropriate this revenue to the Labor Commissioner, it would make an appropriation. Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1308.10 is added to the Labor Code, to read: 1308.10. To obtain an Entertainment Work Permit pursuant to Section 11753 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations an applicant shall submit to the Labor Commissioner an application and an application fee of fifty dollars ($50). The Labor Commissioner shall deposit the fee into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund that is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the revenue in the Entertainment Work Permit Fund is continuously appropriated to the Labor Commissioner to pay for the costs of issuing entertainment work permits and for enforcing the provisions of Section 1308.5.