BILL NUMBER: SBX8 64INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Senator Hollingsworth (Coauthor: Senator Wyland) FEBRUARY 16, 2010 An act to repeal Part 13 (commencing with Section 2698) of Division 2 of the Labor Code, relating to employment. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 64, as introduced, Hollingsworth. Employment: actions by aggrieved employees. The existing Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 was enacted to provide aggrieved employees with a nonexclusive remedy acting as private attorneys general to seek civil penalties for violations of the Labor Code on their own behalf or on behalf of other employees, which penalties previously could be assessed and collected only by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency or its subordinate entities. This bill would repeal that act. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Part 13 (commencing with Section 2698) of Division 2 of the Labor Code is repealed.