trustee of spencer living trust for various departments to use as a storage for the period of time perd of august 1, 2013. through december. >> the clerk: [roll call vote taken] there are 11 ayes. motion passes. >> call item 19. ordinance amending the health code to exempt manual pragsers who are certified by the california manual therapy council. >> i would like to speak to item 20. >> can we vote on item 19? any discussion. colleague can we take item 19 same house same call. without objection this item is called >> the reason i wanted to do that, item 19 was brought for another issue. >> since introducing the legislation, we ensure the legislation taking place in illegal activities and the sunset district isn't the only one that faces these concerns. i would like to thank my colleagues, chiu, kim and yee for cosponsoring this legislation. i hope to work on current law that limits the ability to regulate the establishment that employ only state certified they are theist. our worked with the 2008 law. i want to make one minor change to the legislation that would ensure all the fines tha

and other practitioner by their name. that's how you actually go and seek regular services. we do not feel it would jeopardize the workers safety. were there any organizations that had expressed difficulty with that ? >> we heard through an e-mail today. >> was there outreach for community based organizations. any outreach to the center for young women analysis. >> it was as part of the task force for human trafficking. we were aware of that legislation through that venue. >> could you just explain how the id card would help to bring out or help to prevent human trafficking, how that could play a role in that process? the issues have been enforcement. there are cases where folks are practicing without proper licenses and that has been found to be the case. with the identification cards very upfront. you actually have a certification number and id number that is associated to make sure that they are licensed practitioner. this seeks to not only address issues for trying to help potential victims in trafficking. if you are

all of these practices, unfortunately, have been on the rise, especially in perd periods of high unemployment when workers are willing to take a job almost under any circumstance. these janitors, home care workers, construction workers, cable installers and even restaurant servers are not running their own business by any definition. they want to work and they too often accept whatever arrangement gets them a job. s with same occupation high payroll fraud suffer from high violations of other workplace laws. so it means these jobs are not paying well and they suffer high rates of health and safety violations, among other things. as senator casey mentioned, this hurts not only the workers but it also hurts law-abiding employers and it hurts our government's coffers. i'll talk about that in a little bit. today, i'm going to briefly describe payroll fraud and its impacts. it's the impact on state and federal government coffers and on law-abiding employers. i'll talk a little bit at the the bout why i think payroll fraud protection act is an important first step to combat this problem. as senator