BILL NUMBER: AB 1364INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Campos FEBRUARY 18, 2011 An act to amend Section 1700.47 of the Labor Code, relating to employment. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1364, as introduced, Campos. Employment: discrimination. Existing law prohibits a talent agency from discriminating against an artist based upon specified criteria. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation. This bill would expand the list of criteria based upon which a talent agency may not discriminate against an artist to include those identified in the California Fair Employment and Housing 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. Section 1700.47 of the Labor Code is amended to read: 1700.47. It shall be unlawful for any licensee torefuse to represent any artist on account of that artist's race, color, creed, sex, national origin, religion, or handicap.discriminate against an artist on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation, or any other form of discrimination prohibited under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12920) of Part 2.8 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.