BILL NUMBER: AB 2410	CHAPTERED  09/28/02

	CHAPTER  1042
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 28, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 1, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frommer
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Cohn and Koretz)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2002

   An act to add Section 14998.55 to the Government Code, and to add
Section 335 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to
employment, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2410, Frommer.  Employment:  motion picture industry.
   (1) Existing law specifies the duties of the California Film
Commission.
   This bill would require the commission to release annually the
number of motion picture starts that occurred within the State of
California.
   (2) Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department
in the California Health and Human Services Agency and vests the
department with specified duties and responsibilities.
   This bill would require the department, in consultation and
coordination with the film and movie industry, the Technology, Trade,
and Commerce Agency, and the California Film Commission, to research
and maintain data on film industry employment, to determine the
economic impact of the film industry, to monitor film industry
employment and activity and competing states and countries, to
examine the ethnic diversity and representation of minorities in the
entertainment industry, to review the effect of federal, state, and
local laws on the filmed entertainment industry, and to report that
information to the Legislature biannually, provided that funds are
appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act for these
purposes.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 14998.55 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   14998.55.  The commission shall release annually the number of
motion picture starts that occurred within the State of California.
  SEC. 2.  Section 335 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
to read:
   335.  The department, in consultation and coordination with the
film and movie industry, the Technology, Trade, and Commerce Agency,
and the California Film Commission shall do all of the following,
contingent upon the appropriation of funds in the annual Budget Act
for these specified purposes:
   (a) Research and maintain data on the employment and output of the
film industry, including full-time, part-time, contract, and short
duration or single event employees.
   (b) Examine the ethnic diversity and representation of minorities
in the entertainment industry.
   (c) Determine the overall direct and indirect economic impact of
the film industry.
   (d) Monitor film industry employment and activity in other states
and countries that compete with California for film production.
   (e) Review the effect that federal and state laws and local
ordinances have on the filmed entertainment industry.
   (f) Prepare and release biannually a report to the chairpersons of
the appropriate Senate and Assembly policy committees that details
the information required by this section.