Session:   
Updated:   2026-02-23

Bill Full Text

Home - Bills - Bill - Authors - Dates - Locations - Analyses - Organizations

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<ns0:MeasureDoc xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns0="http://lc.ca.gov/legalservices/schemas/caml.1#" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://lc.ca.gov/legalservices/schemas/caml.1# xca.1.xsd">
        


        <ns0:Description>
                <ns0:Id>20250SB__120799INT</ns0:Id>
                <ns0:VersionNum>99</ns0:VersionNum>
                <ns0:History>
                        <ns0:Action>
                                <ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
                                <ns0:ActionDate>2026-02-19</ns0:ActionDate>
                        </ns0:Action>
                </ns0:History>
                <ns0:LegislativeInfo>
                        <ns0:SessionYear>2025</ns0:SessionYear>
                        <ns0:SessionNum>0</ns0:SessionNum>
                        <ns0:MeasureType>SB</ns0:MeasureType>
                        <ns0:MeasureNum>1207</ns0:MeasureNum>
                        <ns0:MeasureState>INT</ns0:MeasureState>
                </ns0:LegislativeInfo>
                <ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Laird</ns0:AuthorText>
                <ns0:Authors>
                        <ns0:Legislator>
                                <ns0:Contribution>LEAD_AUTHOR</ns0:Contribution>
                                <ns0:House>SENATE</ns0:House>
                                <ns0:Name>Laird</ns0:Name>
                        </ns0:Legislator>
                </ns0:Authors>
                <ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 7908 of the Labor Code, relating to public safety.</ns0:Title>
                <ns0:RelatingClause>public safety</ns0:RelatingClause>
                <ns0:GeneralSubject>
                        <ns0:Subject>Amusement rides.</ns0:Subject>
                </ns0:GeneralSubject>
                <ns0:DigestText>
                        <html:p>The Amusement Rides Safety Law requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to promulgate and formulate rules and regulations for adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the safe installation, repair, maintenance, use, operation, and inspection of all amusement rides as the division finds necessary for the protection of the general public using amusement rides. The law requires an operator, as defined, to, before a new amusement ride is erected or whenever any additions or alterations are made that change the structure, mechanism, classification, or capacity of an amusement ride, file with the division or a public entity a notice of the operator’s intention and any plans or diagrams requested by the division.</html:p>
                        <html:p>This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision requiring an operator to file specified
                information.</html:p>
                </ns0:DigestText>
                <ns0:DigestKey>
                        <ns0:VoteRequired>MAJORITY</ns0:VoteRequired>
                        <ns0:Appropriation>NO</ns0:Appropriation>
                        <ns0:FiscalCommittee>NO</ns0:FiscalCommittee>
                        <ns0:LocalProgram>NO</ns0:LocalProgram>
                </ns0:DigestKey>
                <ns0:MeasureIndicators>
                        <ns0:ImmediateEffect>NO</ns0:ImmediateEffect>
                        <ns0:ImmediateEffectFlags>
                                <ns0:Urgency>NO</ns0:Urgency>
                                <ns0:TaxLevy>NO</ns0:TaxLevy>
                                <ns0:Election>NO</ns0:Election>
                                <ns0:UsualCurrentExpenses>NO</ns0:UsualCurrentExpenses>
                                <ns0:BudgetBill>NO</ns0:BudgetBill>
                                <ns0:Prop25TrailerBill>NO</ns0:Prop25TrailerBill>
                        </ns0:ImmediateEffectFlags>
                </ns0:MeasureIndicators>
        </ns0:Description>
        <ns0:Bill id="bill">
                <ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
                <ns0:BillSection id="id_B835903A-4ED5-4AF2-A41F-369AF3898A17">
                        <ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
                        <ns0:ActionLine action="IS_AMENDED" ns3:href="urn:caml:codes:LAB:caml#xpointer(%2Fcaml%3ALawDoc%2Fcaml%3ACode%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'DIVISION'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'5.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawHeading%5B%40type%3D'PART'%20and%20caml%3ANum%3D'8.'%5D%2Fcaml%3ALawSection%5Bcaml%3ANum%3D'7908.'%5D)" ns3:label="fractionType: LAW_SECTION" ns3:type="locator">
                                Section 7908 of the
                                <ns0:DocName>Labor Code</ns0:DocName>
                                 is amended to read:
                        </ns0:ActionLine>
                        <ns0:Fragment>
                                <ns0:LawSection id="id_2B06C75E-37EF-454B-A236-88956459DA6C">
                                        <ns0:Num>7908.</ns0:Num>
                                        <ns0:LawSectionVersion id="id_E5F02BD3-1935-4DE2-AC06-4730E12DBB03">
                                                <ns0:Content>
                                                        <html:p>Before a new amusement ride is erected, or whenever any additions or alterations are made that change the structure, mechanism, classification, or capacity of an amusement ride, the operator shall file with the division or a public entity a notice of the
                                  operator’s intention and any plans or diagrams requested by the division.</html:p>
                                                </ns0:Content>
                                        </ns0:LawSectionVersion>
                                </ns0:LawSection>
                        </ns0:Fragment>
                </ns0:BillSection>
        </ns0:Bill>
</ns0:MeasureDoc>