California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1514

Introduced by Committee on Insurance

March 5, 2015

An act to amend Sections 2614, 4902, and 4903 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1514, as introduced, Committee on Insurance. Employment Development Department: reports.

Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to report to the Legislature by June 30 of each year on the Employment Development Department’s fraud deterrence and detection activities.

This bill would instead require the report to be made to specified committees of the Legislature.

Existing law requires the director to prepare and report to specified committees of the Legislature and the State Office of Information Technology on the department’s automation plans, including recommendations on improvements and long-term goals and strategies. Existing law requires the report to provide a strategic information plan.

This bill would revise what committees are to receive the report, as specified, and replace references to the State Office of Information Technology with the California Department of Technology.

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 2614 of the Unemployment Insurance
Code is amended to read:

2614.  

The director shall report to the begin delete Legislature end delete begin insert Assembly
Committee on Insurance, Assembly Committee on Labor and
Employment, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial
Relations end insert by June 30 of each year on the department’s fraud
deterrence and detection activities.

SEC. 2.  

Section 4902 of the Unemployment Insurance Code
is amended to read:

4902.  

The report, required by Section 4901, shall be transmitted
to the Legislative Analyst, the Assembly Committees on Insurance,
begin delete Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, and Economic
Development, end delete Labor and Employment, and begin delete Ways and Means, end delete
begin insert Budget, end insert the Senate Committees on Industrial Relations and Budget
and Fiscal Review, the Department of Finance, and the Governor,
on or before February 1 of each even-numbered year. The report
shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide a strategic information begin insert technology end insert plan that describes
the long-term goals and strategies which shall be undertaken by
the department to create an information technology environment
that will not only support the achievement of the department’s
strategic business mission and goals but set the foundation for
using information technology to make substantial and sustainable
improvements in how it conducts business. The plan shall cover
a 10-year planning horizon and include the department’s
information vision, its information management principles, and
long-term goals and strategies for achieving its information vision.

(b) Provide a tactical information plan of specific automation
and infrastructure projects to be undertaken within three years of
the date of the report. The plan shall include project description
and scope, consistency with the strategic information plan,
relationship to other projects, priority of development, estimated
project costs and benefits, and improvements in services. For
automation projects, it shall also provide reductions in personnel
and operating costs, and identification of how personnel and cost
savings will be used, transferred, or otherwise accounted for.

(c) Not necessarily be in addition to or replace any reports now
submitted by the director to the begin delete State Office of Information
Technology in the Department of Finance. end delete begin insert California Department
of Technology. end insert

SEC. 3.  

Section 4903 of the Unemployment Insurance Code
is amended to read:

4903.  

(a) Thirty days prior to the release of the report identified
in Section 4901, the director shall submit it to the begin delete Office of
Information Technology in the Department of Finance, end delete begin insert California
Department of Technology, end insert which shall review and comment on
it. These comments shall be attached to the report by the director
and distributed with the report.

(b) When commenting on the report, the begin delete Office of Information
Technology end delete begin insert California Department of Technology end insert shall include,
but not be limited to, an assessment of whether:

(1) The requirements for the report have been met.

(2) The strategic plan is consistent with the formal strategic plan
submitted separately to the begin delete Office of Information Technology. end delete
begin insert California Department of Technology. end insert

(3) The costs and benefits identified in the report are consistent
with the projects previously submitted for approval or contained
in the Information Management Annual Plans.