BILL NUMBER: AB 816	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 15, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hagman
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Ma   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 816, as amended, 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  , and would instead
provide that moneys in the Employment Training Fund shall not be
appropriated for any other purpose other than those specified  .

   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repealed.
   SEC. 2.    Section 1611.5 is added to the  
Unemployment Insurance Code   , to read:  
   1611.5.  Moneys in the Employment Training Fund shall only be
appropriated for the purposes specified in Section 1611 and shall not
be appropriated for any other purpose.