NL- How much money did AHF and its croonies give to this congressman’s election fund? Just askin’
AHF: California’s Condoms in porn bill (AB 332) clears Assembly Labor Committee with 5-0 vote
California Assembly Bill 332, Rep. Isadore Hall’s bill to require condoms in all adult films made in California, cleared the Committee on Labor and Employment in the California Assembly in a bipartisan 5 to 0 vote earlier today and now moves on to the Assembly Appropriations Committee
Assembly Bill 332, a bill introduced by California Assemblymember Isadore Hall, III (D-Los Angeles, 64th Assembly District) which requires condom use in all adult films produced in California, cleared its first hearing before the California Assembly this week with a 5-0 passing vote from the Committe on Labor and Employment
California Assembly Bill 332, a landmark bill to require condoms in all adult films made in California, cleared the state Assembly’s Committee on Labor and Employment earlier today in a bipartisan five (5) to zero (0) vote (with Republican Assemblymember Jeff Gorell from the 44th Assembly District in Ventura joining four Democrats voting in favor of the bill). Assemblymember Isadore Hall, III (D-Los Angeles) from California’s 64th Assembly District, authored the bill, which he introduced in mid-February. AB 332 now moves on for hearing in the legislature’s Appropriations Committee. On April 9th, the bill cleared its first legislative committee, the Assembly’s Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism and Internet Media Committee, in a five to one vote.
Last year, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the sponsor of Hall’s legislation, successfully spearheaded Ballot Measure B, the ‘County of Los Angeles Safer Sex in the Adult Film Industry Act,’—more informally known as the ‘condoms in porn’ measure, which Los Angeles County voters approved by a 57% to 43% margin in the November 2012 election. Measure B requires producers of adult films to obtain a public health permit from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and pay a permit fee sufficient for necessary enforcement and follow all health and safety laws, including condom use by performers. AB 332 will expand upon the workplace protections now required in Los Angeles County to protect all adult film actors throughout the state of California.
"This is common sense. This is good public policy. And it protects California workers simply trying to do their jobs."
Whitney Engeran-Cordova, AHF Senior Director of Public Health
“To date, the industry has not been able to persuade anyone but themselves that the industry should be able to profit on their performers’ work without providing basic protection,” said Whitney Engeran-Cordova, Senior Director of Public Health for AHF. “We thank the Labor Committee for its swift and favorable action on this bill today. AB 332 does what only this legislature can do: give clear direction to CalOSHA to settle definitions surrounding worker safety measures on adult film set workplaces throughout California. This is common sense. This is good public policy. And it protects California workers simply trying to do their jobs.”
“In November, Los Angles voters overwhelmingly passed a similar County measure requiring condoms and other safety measures on adult film sets throughout Los Angeles County, said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. “AB 332 will now expand and broaden worker protections for all California’s adult film workers on a statewide basis. We are grateful that Representative Hall has shown the courage—and the vision—to recognize that workers in the adult film industry are entitled to the same safeguards and worker protections that any employee in California is, and we will do what ever we can to help pass this legislation.”
Hall’s legislation will provide statewide uniformity needed to ensure that the thousands of actors employed in this multi-billion dollar industry are given reasonable workplace safety protections needed to reduce exposure to HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
Almost every industry in this country ignores state and federal regulations, and with very little oversight from the agencies tasked to inspect and enforce them. The porn industry just needs to “stay calm and carry on.” Very little will come of this legislation if it passes, with extremely limited statewide budgets to back it up.
The creampie will prevail.
Sorry third but you are wrong. Other industries don’t have a Weinstein complaining and reporting about every instance of someone not following the rules. All they have to do is fine a few producers into the stone age for not following the law and that will be it.
Porn as we know it is effectively over. Better plan on wearing condoms on all scenes and just get used to it. With the “gang that couldn’t shoot straight” (FSC) defending the porn industry it just does not have a chance in this condom issue.
I agree to disagree here, K-fan. There are many watchdog groups across the country monitoring possible infractions in every industry, along with whistleblowers inside those industries, and we still get disasters like those recently at the Texas fertilizer plant, where many laws had been and continued to be broken for years. The AHF is not some monolithic power with eyes everywhere. It’s a small group of vendetta-happy zealots, who have a small group of companies/producers in their sites. There is no possible way for ANY group or agency to monitor the many hundreds or thousands of individual producers that make up the “porn industry.” Consider that it’s illegal to shoot without a film permit in most municipalities in this country, yet very few producers follow that requirement and are never investigated or cited. But the bottom line here is the cost of enforcement. Where will this funding come from? Look at how the city/county of L.A. is already dragging its feet on the issue. This shit is simply smoke and mirrors, and AHF will wear out their welcome with lawmakers eventually.
Good thing I called, vegas vice division in clark county porn is legal. See you all in vegas by the first of july.
How much does it cost to start a corporation in California? $100? $200? Perhaps you could start a new corporation for every new video production. “Gaping Gonzo Girls Who Swallow 27 LLC”, for example. If the corporation doesn’t get fined and sued, business as usual. If it does get fined and sued, have the main company collect a sizable fee from the film LLC and then bankrupt the film LLC and move on. They can’t collect a fine from a bankrupt company. Or can they go after the owners of the corp? Yes? No? Maybe? I’m no attorney. Just throwing out ideas.
This guy is fake, just like these “do-gooders”, just like this “epidemic”…. BUT THE MONEY IS REAL!
Money is what it is all about. The vampire from AHS has stirred the pot so much and gotten an assemblyman to go Statewide with a bill. The industry is a group of artists who have no chance of fighting the tyranny. This politician in the picture is happy like the money vampire at AHS to act like the the elitist Bloomberg and tell people how to behave. What a bunch of SHIT. In nine years of shooting porn I never told the actors how to brush their teeth or to wear a condom. That is their choice. It is the actors choice, not some politicians or vampires like is shown in the picture!! What is next? What “BIG GULP” can’t be drank? What cigarette can not be smoked on screen.
The art is being ruined by the latex condoms condoned by the phoney power grabbing politician and the money slut over his right shoulder.
I live in CA, and I can assure you that this bill, if it passes—and it requires the entire state legislature to vote it in, not just the small committees that have passed it thus far—it will have absurdly inadequate resources, or the political will, to enforce. We’re already struggling mightily with illegal immigration, Mexican cartel drug smuggling and violence, underfunded education, massive budget deficits in almost every major city… CA is staggering under the weight of years of fiscal mismanagement. To think that any city in this state will allocate adequate resources to back up this AHF boondoggle is flatly laughable. If you’re Porno Dan, or Steve Hirsch, or Larry Flynt, or one of the other larger studios, then yes, you may expect scrutiny because Weinstein has a tiny boner for you.
Money is absolutely the driving force behind all of this, and many pols will sign on because it makes them look “pro health” to their constituents, but it will take a lot of money to make any of it a reality here in the Sunshine State, where “reality” is in woefully short supply.
Carry on, and don’t start stockpiling rubbers.