Bill Text: CA AB3280 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Superior court: lactation rooms: Judicial Council report.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-24 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. [AB3280 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB3280-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3280
| Introduced by Committee on Judiciary (Assembly Members Kalra (Chair), Dixon (Vice Chair), Bauer-Kahan, Bryan, Connolly, Haney, Maienschein, McKinnor, Pacheco, and Reyes) |
February 29, 2024 |
An act to add Section 69894.2 to the Government Code, relating to courts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3280, as introduced, Committee on Judiciary.
Superior court: lactation rooms: Judicial Council report.
Existing law generally requires employers, including the superior court, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Existing law requires the superior court, commencing July 1, 2026, to provide any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees, as specified.
This bill would require the Judicial Council to submit a report to the Legislature, beginning March 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, with information about the construction, installation, and renovation of lactation rooms in superior courts to comply with the above-described provisions, as specified.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 69894.2 is added to the Government Code, to read:69894.2.
(a) On or before March 1, 2025, and by March 1 of each year thereafter, the Judicial Council shall submit a report to the Legislature regarding how all funds previously appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose of compliance with Section 69894, including, but not limited to, the funds appropriated pursuant to Item 020-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2022, have been expended by the superior courts. The report shall include at least all of the following information:(1) The number of lactation rooms that have been constructed, installed, or renovated to comply with the requirements of Section 69894, including the cost per lactation room.
(2) The plan for future
construction, installation, or renovation of lactation rooms to comply with the requirements of Section 69894, including the average cost per lactation room, detailing the average cost for new construction, renovation of an existing court facility, and installation of portable lactation rooms that comply with subdivision (b) of Section 69894.
(3) How many lactation rooms are estimated to be constructed, installed, or renovated upon expenditure of all funds previously appropriated by the Legislature.
(4) The funds necessary for courts to fully comply with Section 69894 and provide to any court user access to a lactation room in any courthouse in which a lactation room is also provided to court employees in compliance with Section 1031 of the Labor Code.
(b) In order to provide the greatest number of court users with
access to the greatest number of lactation rooms in the greatest number of courthouses, the superior court shall use the most cost effective means possible to construct or renovate lactation rooms in courthouses, including by installing portable lactation rooms that comply with subdivision (b) of Section 69894.
(c) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
