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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AB 213

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Relating to: prohibiting an employer from relying on or inquiring about a prospective employee's current or prior compensation and from restricting an employee's right to disclose compensation information and providing a penalty. (FE)

Discrimination in employment Employment Privacy

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits certain employer conduct related to compensation

information of current and prospective employees.

The bill prohibits an employer from doing any of the following with respect to

a prospective employee:

1. Relying on or soliciting information about the prospective employee's current

or prior compensation.

2. Requiring that the prospective employee's current or prior compensation

meet certain criteria in order for the prospective employee to be considered for

employment.

3. Refusing to hire the prospective employee for exercising his or her rights

relating to compensation information.

The bill also prohibits an employer from discharging or discriminating against

a current employee for disclosing the details of the employee's compensation,

discussing the compensation of other employees, asking other employees for details

regarding their compensation, or taking certain actions to enforce an employee's

rights under the bill.

The bill requires employers to post notices, where notices to employees are

customarily posted and on any electronic job posting, regarding employees' and

prospective employees' rights under the bill and provides a penalty for an employer's

failure to do so.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Berceau (D) , Billings (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , C. Taylor (D) , Crowley (D) , Fields (D) , Genrich (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Kessler (D) , Kolste (D) , Mason (D) , Meyers (D) , Milroy (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Riemer (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Sinicki (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stuck (D) , Subeck (D) , Wachs (D) , Young (D) , Zamarripa (D) , Zepnick (D)

11 cosponsors

C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Hansen (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Miller (D) , Ringhand (D) , Risser (D) , Shilling (D) , Wirch (D)

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Labor and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

Failed 34–59 Feb 22, 2018 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Apr 10, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Sinicki, Ohnstad, Hesselbein, Spreitzer, Meyers, Anderson, Berceau, Billings, Brostoff, Bowen, Crowley, Fields, Genrich, Goyke, Hebl, Kessler, Kolste, Mason, Milroy, Pope, Riemer, Sargent, Shankland, Stuck, Subeck, C. Taylor, Wachs, Young, Zamarripa and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators Hansen, Ringhand, Johnson, Carpenter, Erpenbach, C. Larson, Miller, Risser, Shilling, L. Taylor and Wirch

  2. Apr 10, 2017 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Labor

  3. Apr 25, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 27, 2017 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 22, 2018 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Labor and take up, Ayes 34, Noes 59

  6. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1