California Assembly Bill AB2046 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2046INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Harper FEBRUARY 17, 2016 An act to amend Section 83 of the Labor Code, relating to employment. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2046, as introduced, Harper. Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, as the successor to the Division of Industrial Welfare, within the Department of Industrial Relations, and sets forth its powers and duties over labor standards enforcement. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions. 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 83 of the Labor Code is amended to read: 83. (a) The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement succeeds to, and is vested with, all of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Division of Industrial Welfare, which is hereby abolished. (b) All powers, duties, purposes, and responsibilities of the Chief, Division of Industrial Welfare are hereby transferred to the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement. (c) Any regulation or other action made, prescribed, issued, granted, or performed by the abolished Division of Industrial Welfare in the administration, performance, or implementation of a function transferred pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall remain in effect and shall be deemed to be a regulation or action of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement unless and until repealed, modified, or rescinded by  such   the  division. (d) Whenever any reference is made in any law to the abolished Division of Industrial Welfare it shall be deemed to be a reference to, and to mean, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.