BILL NUMBER: AB 1845	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1375.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment compensation, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1845, as introduced, Solorio. Unemployment compensation
benefits: overpayment assessments.
   Existing law creates and defines the Benefit Audit Fund and
provides that assessments for overpaid unemployment compensation
benefits shall be deposited into this fund. Existing law creates the
Unemployment Fund as a continuously appropriated fund.
   This bill would require that assessments collected after October
21, 2013, for overpaid unemployment compensation benefits be
deposited into the Benefit Audit Fund and the Unemployment Fund
equally. By providing a new source of revenue for the continuously
appropriated Unemployment Fund, this bill would make an
appropriation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1375.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   1375.1.   (a)    If the director finds that an
individual has been overpaid unemployment compensation benefits
because he or she willfully, for the purpose of obtaining
unemployment compensation benefits, either made a false statement or
representation, with actual knowledge of the falsity thereof, or
withheld a material fact, the director shall assess against the
individual an amount equal to 30 percent of the overpayment amount.
Assessments collected under this section  , on or before October
21, 2013,  shall be deposited in the Benefit Audit Fund. 
   (b) After October 21, 2013, assessments collected under
subdivision (a) shall be deposited as follows:  
   (1) Fifty percent in the Benefit Audit Fund.  
   (2) Fifty percent in the Unemployment Fund.