Prohibiting discrimination in employment against an individual for signing or refusing to sign a recall petition

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Current law prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of a lawful product off the employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious or political matters.

This bill prohibits discrimination in employment against an individual who signs or refuses to sign a petition for the recall of any incumbent elective official (recall petition). The bill provides, however, that it is not employment discrimination on the basis of signing a recall petition for an employer to refuse to hire or employ an individual, to suspend or terminate the employment of an individual, or to discriminate against an individual in promotion, in compensation, or in terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because the individual signed a recall petition if the individual is a nonpartisan employee of or an applicant for nonpartisan employment with the Government Accountability Board, a legislative service agency, either house of the legislature, a community relations-social development commission, a municipal public utility, the Citizens Utility Board, or the Judicial Commission and signing a recall petition impairs the nonpartisan character of the employer.

Who's behind it

6 lawmakers are its authors⁠. All 6 are Democrats.

3 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.