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AB-601 Correctional industry safety committee.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 02/09/2023 09:00 PM
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 601

Introduced by Assembly Member Flora

February 09, 2023

An act to amend Section 6304.3 of the Labor Code, relating to employment.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 601, as introduced, Flora. Correctional industry safety committee.
Existing law requires that a correctional industry safety committee be established in accordance with Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation administrative procedures at each facility maintaining a correctional industry, as defined, and requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to promulgate, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement, regulations concerning the duties and functions that govern the operation of each committee.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 6304.3 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

6304.3.
 (a) A Correctional Industry Safety Committee shall be established in accordance with Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation administrative procedures at each facility maintaining a correctional industry, as defined by the Department of Corrections. Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health shall promulgate, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall implement, regulations concerning the duties and functions which that shall govern the operation of each such committee.
(b) (1) All complaints alleging unsafe or unhealthy working conditions in a correctional industry shall initially be directed to the Correctional Industry Safety Committee of the facility prison. The committee shall attempt to resolve all complaints.

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(2) If a complaint is not resolved by the committee within 15 calendar days, the complaint shall be referred by the committee to the division where it shall be reviewed. When the division receives a complaint which, that, in its determination, constitutes a bona fide allegation of a safety or health violation, the division shall summarily investigate the same as soon as possible, but not later than three working days after receipt of a complaint charging a serious violation, as defined in Section 6309, and not later than 14 calendar days after receipt of a complaint charging a nonserious violation.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision (b) and in Section 6313, the inspection or investigation of a facility maintaining a correctional industry, as defined by the Department of Corrections, Corrections and Rehabilitation, shall be discretionary with the division.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 6321, the division may give advance notice of an inspection or investigation and may postpone the same if such action is necessary for the maintenance of security at the facility where the inspection or investigation is to be held, or for insuring the safety and health of the division’s representative who will be conducting such inspection or investigation.