BILL NUMBER: AB 857	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Galgiani and Mendoza
    (   Principal coauthor:   Assembly Member
  Coto   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Arambula   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to add Section 14236 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development  , and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 857, as amended, Galgiani. Workforce development: one-stop
career center systems. 
   The 
    (1)     The  federal Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 provides for workforce investment activities,
including activities in which states may participate. Existing law
contains various programs for job training and employment investment,
including work incentive and employment training outreach programs.
Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act declares that
it is the intent of the Legislature to deliver comprehensive
workforce services to jobseekers, students, and employers through a
system of one-stop career centers to, among other things, make job
outreach, intake, job search and placement assistance, and other
related services available in one location.
   Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation
benefits to eligible unemployed persons during the period that the
person is unemployed, and requires the Employment Development
Department to implement and administer the unemployment compensation
program.
   This bill would require the department to provide in-person
unemployment benefit assistance at all  comprehensive  state
one-stop career centers  and workforce service offices  ,
as prescribed. The bill would require that the unemployment benefit
assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career
centers be funded with existing moneys available to the department
for the administration of the unemployment compensation program. 

   (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 14236 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   14236.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall
provide in-person unemployment benefit assistance at all 
comprehensive  state one-stop career centers  and department
workforce service offices  , as follows:
   (1) The department shall ensure that customer service personnel at
those career centers are fully trained regarding the policy, laws,
and regulations governing eligibility, claims processing, and
procedures for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to
eligible individuals.
   (2) Printed information regarding eligibility and the process for
filing claims for unemployment compensation benefits shall be made
available at all one-stop career centers.
   (b) The unemployment benefit assistance services required to be
provided at one-stop career centers pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be funded with existing moneys available to the department for the
administration of the unemployment insurance compensation program.
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to make necessary statutory changes, as soon as possible,
to provide urgently needed assistance to the state's unemployed
workers and promote economic recovery, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.