SENATE
       2nd Reading Unamended
       April 14, 2016          HOUSE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
       March 29, 2016          HOUSE
       2nd Reading Unamended
                      March 28, 2016Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                    REVISED
               This Version Includes All Amendments Adopted
                      on Second Reading in the Second House
 LLS NO. 16-0576.01 Kristen Forrestal x4217HOUSE BILL 16-1156
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 Hullinghorst, Kagan, Lee, Lontine, Melton, Moreno, Pettersen, Primavera, Singer, Vigil,
 Williams, Winter
 
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                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the prohibition of an action against an employee
            for sharing wage information.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            Current law states that it is a discriminatory and unfair labor
       practice for an employer to discharge, discipline, discriminate against,
       coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any employee or other
       person because the employee inquired about, disclosed, compared, or
       otherwise discussed the employee's wages, unless otherwise permitted by
       federal law. Federal law exempts certain classes of employers from
       discrimination laws. The bill strikes the reference to that exemption and
       extends the current law to those classes of employers, thereby providing
       discrimination protections to all employees.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 24-34-402, amend
       (1) (i) as follows:
            24-34-402.  Discriminatory or unfair employment practices.
       (1)  It shall be a discriminatory or unfair employment practice:
            (i)  Unless otherwise permitted by federal law, for an employer to
       discharge, discipline, discriminate against, coerce, intimidate, threaten,
       or interfere with any employee or other person because the employee
       inquired about, disclosed, compared, or otherwise discussed the
       employee's wages; to require as a condition of employment nondisclosure
       by an employee of his or her wages; or to require an employee to sign a
       waiver or other document that purports to deny an employee the right to
       disclose his or her wage information. This paragraph (i) shall not apply
       to employers who are exempt from the provisions of the "National Labor
       Relations Act", 29 U.S.C. sec. 151 et seq.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.