BILL NUMBER: AB 816	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to repeal Section 1611.5 of the Unemployment Insurance
Code, relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 816, as introduced, Hagman. Unemployment insurance: Employment
Training Fund.
   Existing law establishes the Employment Training Fund as a special
fund in the State Treasury, and requires that specified
contributions collected from employers, as defined, on wages be
deposited in, or transferred to, the fund for use for certain
purposes related to employment training and development.
   Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds
through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
block grant program to eligible states, with California's version of
this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and
Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program.
   Existing law authorizes the Legislature to appropriate from the
Employment Training Fund an amount specified in the annual Budget Act
to fund the local assistance portion of welfare-to-work activities
under the CalWORKs program, as provided for pursuant to a specified
provision of existing law.
   This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing the
Legislature to appropriate that amount in the annual Budget Act from
the fund to fund the local assistance portion of welfare-to-work
activities under the CalWORKs program.
   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 1611.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
repealed. 
   1611.5.  Notwithstanding Section 1611, the Legislature may
appropriate from the Employment Training Fund an amount specified in
the annual Budget Act to fund the local assistance portion of
welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKs program, provided for
pursuant to Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2
of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, as
administered by the State Department of Social Services.