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                                   THIRD READING 


          Bill No:  AB 145
          Author:   Gomez (D)
          Introduced:1/13/15  
          Vote:     27  - Urgency

           SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE:  9-0, 6/10/15
           AYES:  Hernandez, Nguyen, Hall, Mitchell, Monning, Nielsen,  
            Pan, Roth, Wolk

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  Senate Rule 28.8

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  78-0, 4/9/15 (Consent) - See last page for  
            vote

           SUBJECT:   Public benefits reports


          SOURCE:    Author

          DIGEST:   This bill corrects a drafting error in legislation  
          enacted last year related to a report of employers with  
          employees who are enrolled in the Medi-Cal Program. This bill  
          contains an urgency clause that will make this bill effective  
          upon enactment.

          ANALYSIS: 
          
          Existing law:

          1)Requires, until January 1, 2020, the Director of the  
            Employment Development Department (EDD) to permit the use of  
            specified information in his or her possession by the  
            Department of Finance (DOF) to prepare and submit to the  








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            Legislature a report that identifies all employers in  
            California that employ 50 or more employees who receive  
            benefits from the Medi-Cal Program. 

          2)Requires the DOF to transmit to the Legislature and post on  
            the DOF's Web site a report that lists the 500 employers in  
            the state with the most number of employees enrolled in the  
            Medi-Cal Program, as specified. Defines an "employer" for this  
            purpose as an individual or organization that employs 100 or  
            more Medi-Cal beneficiaries who meet certain criteria.

          This bill:

          1)Corrects a drafting error in legislation enacted last year  
            related to a report of employers that employ Medi-Cal  
            beneficiaries by revising the requirement applicable to the  
            Director of EDD to permit the use of specified information by  
            the DOF to prepare and submit a report that identifies all  
            employers in California that employ 100 or more employees who  
            receive Medi-Cal benefits, instead of 50 or more employees in  
            existing law.

          2)Takes effect immediately as an urgency statute.

          Background
          
          AB 1792 (Gomez, Chapter 889, Statutes of 2014) required the  
          preparation of an annual report regarding employers in the state  
          with the largest number of employees who are Medi-Cal  
          beneficiaries. Specifically, that bill required the DOF, after  
          obtaining specified information from the EDD, to annually  
          transmit to the Legislature and post on its Internet Web site a  
          report beginning in 2016 that, among other things, identifies  
          the 500 employers in the state with the most number of employees  
          enrolled in Medi-Cal, ranked by the number of those employees,  
          as specified. The operative language of AB 1792 defined an  
          "employer" as an individual or organization that employs 100 or  
          more beneficiaries of the Medi-Cal Program.

          AB 1792 also amended Unemployment Insurance Code Section 1095,  
          which governs when and under what circumstances the EDD may  
          permit the use of otherwise confidential information within its  
          possession. However, the amendment to that section of law  
          mistakenly defined "employer" to mean an individual or  







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          organization that employs 50 (rather than 100) beneficiaries of  
          the Medi-Cal Program. This bill corrects the drafting error to  
          Unemployment Insurance Code Section 1095.

          Comments
          
          Author's statement.  According to the author, AB 145 is a  
          cleanup measure to last year's AB 1792 (Gomez). By agreement,  
          the author indicates he changed the employer size threshold in  
          that measure from 50 to 100 employees. However, this change was  
          not made in one code section, and this bill corrects that  
          drafting error.

          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:YesLocal:   No


          SUPPORT:   (Verified6/23/15)


          American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
          California Labor Federation
          California State Council of the Service Employees International  
          Union
          Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California
          Service Employees International Union Local 1000 


          OPPOSITION:   (Verified6/23/15)


          None received


          ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT:     Service Employees International Union  
          Local 1000 writes in support that that this bill fixes one small  
          drafting error in AB 1792, and this bill simply corrects that  
          oversight and reconciles the code sections.
           

          ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  78-0, 4/9/15
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,  
            Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Campos, Chang, Chau,  
            Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly,  







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            Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina  
            Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,  
            Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,  
            Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,  
            Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina,  
            Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson,  
            Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas,  
            Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner,  
            Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Calderon, O'Donnell

          Prepared by:Scott Bain / HEALTH / 
          6/24/15 15:26:53


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