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CCIR Comments:

Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (elected November 1998) wastes no time protecting his illegal alien constituency.

At the "Grande Marcha" in Los Angeles against Prop 187 in October 1994, he said: "Workers with or without documents have rights!"

At Southwest Voter Registration Project 1997 annual conference: "We move the union movement deep into the Latino community. We have displaced other work communities -- clothing, hotel and restaurant industries used to be done by blacks and anglos. Now we need to organize to be in a position to lead this country! Because of immigration and the birth rate, our population is growing -- Latinos are all over this nation!"

An act to amend Sections 51 and 51.7 of the Civil Code, relating to discrimination.

Existing law provides that all persons within the state are free and equal and, no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.

Existing law (CCIR note: this must be an error in the text of the bill - he means "this bill" ) would extend this provision to also provide that all people are entitled to equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in business establishments, no matter what their immigration status.

Existing law provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics.

This bill would extend this provision to also provide that all persons are entitled to be free from violence or intimidation because of immigration status.

Vote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.

51. This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Unruh Civil Rights Act.

All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, immigration status, or disability are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever. (CCIR asks: hotels? apartments? HUD housing? mortgages for home purchases?)

This section shall not be construed to confer any right or privilege on a person that is conditioned or limited by law or that is applicable alike to persons of every sex, color, race, religion, ancestry, national origin, immigration status, or disability.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any construction, alteration, repair, structural or otherwise, or modification of any sort whatsoever, beyond that construction, alteration, repair, or modification that is otherwise required by other provisions of law, to any new or existing establishment, facility, building, improvement, or any other structure, nor shall anything in this section be construed to augment, restrict, or alter in any way the authority of the State Architect to require construction, alteration, repair, or modifications that the State Architect otherwise possesses pursuant to other laws.

A violation of the right of any individual under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336) shall also constitute a violation of this section.

51.7. (a) All persons within the jurisdiction of this state have the right to be free from any violence, or intimidation by threat of violence, committed against their persons or property because of their race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, immigration status, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or position in a labor dispute, or because another person perceives them to have one or more of those characteristics. The identification in this subdivision of particular bases of discrimination is illustrative rather than restrictive.

This section does not apply to statements concerning positions in a labor dispute which are made during otherwise lawful labor picketing.

(b) As used in this section, "sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.