SB 1103: 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 retailers premises, including copies of any video footage, upon receipt of an administrative subpoena, as specified. The bill would exempt documentation submitted as described above from the California Public Records Act. The bill would require the large home improvement retailer to preserve the documentation described above. The bill would also require the large home improvement retailer to disclose on the retailers 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.