Large home improvement retailers: immigration enforcement: reporting.

Plain English Breakdown

The term 'severability' was removed as it does not appear to be necessary for a grade 6-8 audience.

Large Home Improvement Retailers: Reporting Immigration Enforcement

The bill requires large home improvement retailers in California to report certain immigration enforcement activities and maintain specific policies on their websites.

What This Bill Does

• Requires large home improvement stores to provide the Attorney General with copies of documentation related to immigration enforcement that occur at their premises, including video footage if available.
• Needs these stores to disclose information about their policies regarding immigration enforcement on their website.
• Authorizes the Attorney General or a person acting in the public interest to sue for injunctive relief if a store does not comply with these rules.

Who It Names or Affects

• Large home improvement retailers in California
• The Attorney General of California

Terms To Know

Immigration enforcement activity

Actions taken by law enforcement related to immigration status, such as detaining or removing individuals.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what happens after the bill is signed into law.
• The definition of 'large home improvement retailers' is not provided in the official source material.

Official Summary Text

SB 1103, as amended, Pérez.
Buy now, pay later credit programs.
Large home improvement retailers: immigration enforcement: reporting.
Existing law generally regulates various business activities and practices related to consumer rights. Existing law requires law enforcement and state and local governments to interact with and report on federal action against individuals based on their perceived or actual immigration status in various specified manners.
This bill would require a large home improvement retailer doing business in this state, as defined, to provide the Attorney General with copies of specified documentation related to immigration enforcement activity, as defined, that occurs on the large home improvement retailer’s premises, including copies of any video footage, as specified. The bill would also require the large home improvement retailer to disclose on the retailer’s internet
website certain information, including any policies and practices the large home improvement retailer maintains that relate to immigration enforcement activity on its premises, as specified. The bill would authorize the Attorney General or a person acting in the public interest to bring an action for injunctive relief for a violation of the above provisions. The bill would make related findings and declarations and would declare the severability of its provisions.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
The California Financing Law generally regulates, among other things, consumer loans.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would relate to buy now, pay later credit programs.

Current Bill Text

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