418 | 2024 Cal-Peculiarities ©2024 Seyfarth Shaw LLP www.seyfarth.com 22 Lab. Code § 1393.5(f). 23 AB 3175, 2020 bill amending Lab. Code § 1700.52. 24 Civ. Code § 1714.43(a), (c). 25 The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act: A Resource Guide 2015, https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/sb657/resourceguide.pdf (last visited Mar. 28, 2024). 26 Civ. Code § 1714.43(d). 27 Civ. Code § 52.6. 28 Gov’t Code § 12950.3(b)(3). See SB 970, 2018 bill adding Gov’t Code § 12950.3. The requirement does not apply to bed and breakfast inns as defined in Business and Professions Code section 24045.12. 29 AB 2034, a 2018 bill amending Civ. Code § 52.6 to add subdivision 52.6(e). 30 Civ. Code § 52.6(f)(1)-(6). 31 Civ. Code § 52.6(g)(2). 32 Civ. Code § 52.6(h). 33 Lab. Code § 2929. 34 Fam. Code § 5290. 35 Civ. Proc. Code §§ 706.011, 706.050. 36 Publicly held corporations constitute a subset of publicly traded corporations, and have shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ or the NYSE American (formerly known as the American Stock Exchange or AMEX). See California Secretary of State, Women on Boards, Frequently Asked Questions, https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/women-boards/frequent (last visited Mar. 28, 2024). 37 Corp. Code §§ 301.3, 2115.5. 38 Corp. Code § 301(b)(1)-(3). If the number of directors is four or fewer, the corporation must have at least one female director. If the number of directors is five, the corporation must have at least two female directors. If the corporation has six or more directors, the corporation must have at least three female directors. 39 SB 979, 2020 bill amending Corp. Code § 301.3 and adding Corp. Code § 301.4. 40 https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/div-on-boards/dob-report-2022.pdf (last visited Mar. 28, 2024). 41 SB 826, 2018 bill adding Corp. Code §§ 301.3, 2115.5. 42 Crest v. Padilla, No. 20 STCV 37513 (Los Angeles Sup. Ct. April 1, 2022) (Judge Terry A. Green) (granting an injunction against the corporate board diversity law with respect to its quotas for “underrepresented communities”). 43 Crest v. Padilla, No. 19 STCV 27561 (May 13, 2022) (Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis) (Corp. Code § 301.3, requiring publicly listed California corporations to have women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution). The two Crest v. Padilla decisions have the same name because they both were brought by the same plaintiff against the same defendant (then-California Attorney General Alex Padilla), with a 2019 filing challenging the gender quota and a 2020 filing challenging the “underrepresented communities” quota). 44 Crest v. Padilla, No. B322276 (Cal. Ct. App. Dec. 1, 2022); Crest v. Padilla, No. B321726 (Cal. Ct. App. Dec. 1, 2022). 45 Id. 46 Alliance for Fair Bd. Recruitment v. Weber, No. 2:21-CV-01951-JAM-AC, 2023 WL 3481146, at *2-3 (E.D. Cal. May 16, 2023) (citing Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265, 307 (1978)). 47 Alliance for Fair Recruitment v. Weber, No. 23-15091, Doc. 24 (9th Cir. Dec. 20, 2023). 48 The Act originally was set to become effective on January 1, 2023. However, on August 31, 2021, Governor Newsom signed SB 26, which made the Act effective the following day, September 1, 2021. 49 SB 206, 2019 bill adding Educ. Code § 67456; AB 1518, 2019 bill amending Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 18895.2, 18897.6, 18897.73 and adding Bus. & Prof. Code § 18897.74; SB 26, 2021 bill amending Educ. Code § 67456. 50 SB 906, 2024 bill to amend Educ. Code § 67456.
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