Los Angeles Times, Metro Section, Page B8, Saturday, June 20, 1992.

Sacramento File

Rights Bill Advances Toward Wilson Veto, Brown Says

A Senate committee has approved a comprehensive civil rights bill
by Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) that the
author says Gov. Pete Wilson intends to veto, "but I intend to change
his mind."

     A 6-3 vote sent the bill from the Judiciary Committee to the
Appropriations Committee for additional screening.  It was approved
earlier in the Assembly on a 41-33 vote, the bare majority required for
passage.

     Among other things, the bill would outlaw job discrimination against
homosexuals, restore the authority of the Fair Employment and
Housing Commission to award damages to discrimination victims, and
prohibit employers from requiring employees to speak only English in
the workplace.

     It would also overturn several state Supreme Court decisions,
including rulings that removed FEHC authority to award damages in
sexual harassment cases and restricted the rights of families denied
housing because they could not show proof of minimum income.

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