Public contracts: state agency: sweatshop labor: slave and sweat free code of conduct.

Existing law requires every contract entered into by a state agency for the procurement of equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, and accessories and the laundering thereof, excluding public works contracts, to require a contractor to certify that no equipment, materials, supplies, apparel, garments, or accessories provided under the contract are produced by sweatshop labor, forced labor, convict labor, indentured labor under penal sanction, abusive forms of child labor, or exploitation of children in sweatshop labor. If a contractor knew or should have known the specified products furnished to the state were laundered or produced by the specified types of prohibited labor, the…