From: buckmr@lib110.its.rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire)
Subject: Re: Governor Signs California Rights Legislation
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:25:33 GMT

dbailey@cix.compulink.co.uk (Diane Bailey) writes:


>Congratulations to all involved in achieving L&G Rights Legislation
>in California.  So AB2601 was signed instead of being vetoed!

>Has anyone got the text, or a reliable summary of this law and 
>could mail it to me for the UK L&G Press?
Here's the text as introduced:


      CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE -- 1991-92 REGULAR SESSION

ASSEMBLY BILL                                             No. 2601

        Introduced by Assembly Member Terry Friedman

                      February 11, 1992

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     An act to add Section 1102.1 to the Labor Code, relating to 
employment.

                 LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

     AB 2601, as introduced, T. Friedman.  Employment:  
discrimination:  sexual orientation.

     Existing statutory law prohibits employers from making, 
adopting, or enforcing any policy that tends to control or direct the 
political activities or affiliations of employees.  It also prohibits 
employers from coercing, influencing, or attempting to coerce or 
influence employees to adopt or follow or refrain from adopting or 
following any particular line of political activity by threatening a 
loss of employment.  Existing case law, for purposes of the above 
provisions, recognizes that actions of homosexuals for equal rights, 
including actions in the field of employment, are political activity 
within the above statutory provisions and are protected from the 
adverse policies of employers and prospective employers.

     This bill would codicfy the above case law and would specify 
that the above statutory provisions prohibit discrimination or 
disparate treatment in any of the terms and conditions of employment 
based on actual or perceived sexual orientation.  It would provide 
that this prohibition shall not apply to a religious association or 
corporation not organized for private profit, whether incorporated as 
a religious or public benefit corporation.

     Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.  
State-mandated local program:  no.

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AB 2601                        - 2 -

     The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

 1       SECTION 1.  The purpose of this act is to codify
 2  existing case law as determined in Gay Law Students v.
 3  Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, 24 Cal. 3d 458 (1979)
 4  and Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp., 235 Cal. App. 3d 654
 5  (1991) prohibiting discrimination based on sexual
 6  orientation.
 7       SEC. 2.  Section 1102. is added to the Labor Code, to
 8  read:
 9       1102.1.  (a) Sections 1101 and 1102 prohibit
10  discrimination or disparate treatment in any of the terms
11  and conditions of employment based on actual or
12  perceived sexual orientation.
13       (b)  This section shall not apply to a religious
14  association or corporation not organized for private
15  profit, whether incorporated as a religious or public
16  benefit corporation.

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