LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 402, as amended, Davis. Employment: entertainment work permits.

Existing law requires the written consent of the Labor
Commissioner for the employment of a minor, as specified, in
entertainment productions or as an advertising or photographic model
or as a participant or player in a sport. Under existing law, a minor
is required to obtain an entertainment work permit from the Labor
Commissioner in order to be employed in those capacities.
This bill , which would be known as the Michael Jackson
Child Performers Workplace Protection Act, would require
that a fee be submitted at the time the minor applies for the work
permit. The bill would specify that the fee be deposited into the
Entertainment Work Permit Fund, which would be created by the bill,
and would make this fee revenue available to the Labor Commissioner,
upon appropriation, for the costs of issuing the permit, enforcing
the provisions regulating a minor's employment in fields requiring
issuance of an entertainment work permit, and administering the
entertainment work permit program. The bill would provide that the
fee to be submitted to the Labor Commissioner pursuant to these
provisions would be $50 until January 1, 2012, and, on and after
January 1, 2012, the fee would be set by the Labor Commissioner in an
amount, not to exceed $50, sufficient to pay for the costs set forth
above.