BILL NUMBER: AB 2188	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 15, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 17, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 28, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Bradford
  Members   Bradford   and Niello

   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Beall, Caballero, Carter, Salas, and
Solorio)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 3075 of  ,  the
Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance 
, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately
 .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2188, as amended, Bradford. Unemployment compensation:
disability benefits: electronic payment.
   Existing law authorizes the Employment Development Department to
administer the disability compensation program. Existing law requires
the department, among other duties, to make disability benefit
payments by checks drawn on a specified bank, as provided.
   The bill would remove the requirement to pay by check and thus
allow the director to make these payments using electronic
technology. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3075 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   3075.  The director shall, without presenting vouchers and
itemized statements, withdraw from the Disability Fund any sums that
he or she deems necessary for the payment of disability benefits for
a reasonable future period. The Controller shall draw his or her
warrant for any claim presented by the director for the payment and
the Treasurer shall pay the warrant. Upon the withdrawal thereof,
those sums shall be deposited in a disability benefit payment account
in such bank or public depositary and under those conditions as the
director determines, with the approval of the Department of Finance.
The bank or public depositary shall be one in which general funds of
the state may be deposited, but no public deposit insurance charge or
premium shall be paid out of that account. Money in this account
shall be used solely to pay disability benefits by the department
pursuant to authorized regulations and no other disbursement shall be
made from that account, except that amounts erroneously and
illegally deposited in that account may be refunded. The procedure
prescribed by those regulations shall satisfy and be in lieu of any
and all statutory requirements of specific appropriation or other
form of release by state officers of money in their custody prior to
expenditure that might otherwise be applicable to withdrawals from
that account.
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to ensure that disability benefit payments are made to
claimants in a timely manner, it is necessary that this act take
effect immediately.