Bill Text: CA SB1167 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Employment safety: indoor workers: heat regulations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 839, Statutes of 2016. [SB1167 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1167-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1167	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 16, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator  Leyva   Mendoza 

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 6720 to the Labor Code, relating to employee
safety.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1167, as amended,  Leyva   Mendoza  .
Employment safety: indoor workers: heat regulations.
   Under existing law, the  California  Occupational Safety
and Health Act of 1973, the Division of Occupational Safety and
Health investigates complaints that a workplace is not safe and may
issue orders necessary to ensure employee safety. Under existing law,
certain violations of that act or a standard, order, or special
order authorized by the act are a crime. Under existing law, the
division has adopted regulations establishing a heat illness
prevention standard for outdoor workers.
   This bill would require the division, by July 1, 2018, to propose
to the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for 
its   the board's review and  adoption, a heat
illness and injury prevention standard applicable to indoor workers.
The bill would specify that this requirement does not prohibit the
division from proposing, or the standards board from adopting, a
standard that limits the application of high heat provisions to
certain industry sectors. Because this bill would expand the
definition of an existing crime, it would impose a state-mandated
local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 6720 is added to the Labor Code, to read:
   6720.  By July 1, 2018, the division shall propose to the
standards board for  its   the board's 
review and adoption a standard that minimizes heat-related illness
and injury among indoor workers. This section does not prohibit the
division from proposing, or the standards board from adopting, a
standard that limits the application of high heat provisions to
certain industry sectors.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.