BILL NUMBER: AB 908	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 316 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 908, as introduced, Gomez. Unemployment insurance.
   Existing unemployment insurance law requires all standard
information pamphlets provided by the Employment Development
Department concerning unemployment and disability insurance programs
to be printed in English and the 7 other most commonly used languages
among participants in each program. Existing law also requires the
Employment Development Department to make pages on its Internet Web
site that provide information regarding applying for, and receiving,
unemployment insurance benefits available in the 7 languages, other
than English, most commonly used by unemployment insurance applicants
and claimants.
   This bill would instead require that information and those pages
to be printed and available in 10 languages other than English.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 316 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   316.  (a) There shall be maintained within an appropriate division
of the department, a bureau, section, or unit relating to education
and public instruction for the purpose of informing employers and
workers of their rights and responsibilities under this code, and of
instructing the public generally concerning its basic purposes,
provisions, and operations. All standard information employee
pamphlets concerning unemployment and disability insurance programs
shall be printed in English and the  seven   10
 other most commonly used languages among participants in each
program in such number as he or she may determine.
   (b) The department shall make the pages on its Internet Web site
that provide information regarding applying for, and receiving,
unemployment insurance benefits available in the  seven
  10  languages, other than English, most commonly
used by unemployment insurance applicants and claimants.