BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | AB 145| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 145 Page 2 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 AB 145 Page 3 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, AB 145 Page 4 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 **** END ****