BILL NUMBER: AB 1932	CHAPTERED  09/09/02

	CHAPTER  403
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 9, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 6, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 12, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 20, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 30, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Horton

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2002

   An act to amend Section 2707.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1932, Horton.  Unemployment insurance:  disability benefit
claims.
   Existing unemployment insurance law allows the Employment
Development Department for good cause to reconsider any determination
with respect to a disability benefit claim prior to filing an appeal
therefrom.
   This bill would also allow the reconsideration within 30 days
after an appeal to an administrative law judge is filed.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 2707.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   2707.5.  (a) The department may for good cause reconsider any
determination provided for in this article prior to the filing of an
appeal therefrom, or within 30 days after an appeal to an
administrative law judge is filed.  The department shall promptly
notify the claimant of any reconsidered determination, and the
claimant may appeal therefrom in the manner prescribed in Section
2707.2.  The director shall be an interested party to any appeal.
   (b) The department may for good cause reconsider any computation
or recomputation provided for in this article within one year from
the beginning date of the disability benefit period to which the
notice of computation or recomputation relates, except that no
recomputation may be considered with respect to any issue considered
or under consideration in an appeal taken from a denial of
recomputation.  The department shall promptly notify the claimant of
the recomputation.  The claimant may protest the accuracy of the
recomputation as prescribed in Section 2707.4.