BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 532 (McCarty) - State agencies: collection of data: race or
ethnic origin.
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|Version: May 20, 2015 |Policy Vote: G.O. 10 - 2 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 27, 2015 |Consultant: Mark McKenzie |
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*********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM - SUSPENSE FILE ***********
The following information is revised to reflect amendments
adopted by the committee on August 27, 2015
Bill
Summary: AB 532 would require state entities that collect
demographic information on ethnicity and race to provide forms
that offer respondents the option of selecting one or more
ethnic or racial designations, by January 1, 2022.
Fiscal
Impact: Unknown, but significant overall costs to comply with
the bill's mandates. Many state entities report minor and
absorbable costs to comply by 2022, and many others are
unaffected by the bill because they don't collect demographic
data. The following entities that provided information would
have significant costs:
The Department of Human Resources and the State Personnel
Board (CalHR) estimates costs in the range of $250,000
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(General Fund), primarily associated with programming duties
to update systems.
The Administrative Office of the Courts (Judicial Council)
indicates that several of the mandated duties of the courts
require the collection of demographic data. Some of these
procedures either currently allow for multiple racial or
ethnic designations, or could be updated in the normal course
of business by 2022. Courts also collect race data on
criminal defendants through case management systems, most of
which offer the option to identify as "multiracial" or
"other," but not to select more than one designation. Costs
to update 58 separate case management systems are unknown, but
likely significant. (Trial Court Trust Fund)
Unknown costs to the Employment Development Department (EDD),
potentially in the range of $1 million (General Fund). EDD
indicated costs related to the May 20 version of the bill
would be approximately $6.5 million, largely attributable to
costs to add a new "multiractial" designation to multiple IT
systems and programs. The author's amendments adopted by this
committee would remove the option for respondents to identify
as multiracial, so staff assumes the initial identified costs
will be substantially decreased. Updated fiscal estimates
from EDD are currently unavailable.
Author
Amendments: Delete the requirement for state entities to offer
respondents the option of identifying as multiracial.
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