BILL NUMBER: AB 1514	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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  Legislature
  Assembly Committee on Insurance, Assembly Committee on
Labor and Employment, and the Senate Committee on Labor and
Industrial Relations  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,
 Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, and Economic
Development,  Labor and Employment, and  Ways and
Means,   Budget,  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  technology  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  State Office of Information
Technology in the Department of Finance.   California
Department of Technology. 
  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
 Office of Information Technology in the Department of
Finance,   California Department of Technology, 
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  Office of
Information Technology   California Department of
Technology  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  Office of Information
Technology.   California Department of Technology. 

   (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.