Two years ago, California State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced a bill imposing gender quotas on publicly held domestic or foreign corporations having their principal executive offices in California.  Then Governor Brown admitted "I don't minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation." Despite these concerns, he signed the bill into law.  The bill is currently facing at least two challenges.  

Sitting or Standing, Directors Are Still Directors

Senator Jackson introduced a bill, SB 1142, earlier this week that would amend the law (Cal. Corp. Code § 301.3) to specify that the minimum number of female directors is based on the number of sitting directors.  Presumably, "sitting" is intended to refer to the directors then in office.  However, this begs the question of when the number of sitting directors is to be determined.  The bill makes several other technical changes that further obfuscate rather than illuminate the law and does nothing to address the manifest unconstitutionality of the law.