BILL NUMBER: AB 1827	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 10, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Arambula and Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2010

   An act to  add Section 14236 to   add and
repeal Section 14236 of  the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1827, as amended, Arambula. Workforce development: one-stop
career centers.
   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. Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act,
declares that it is the intent of the Legislature to deliver
comprehensive workforce services to job seekers, 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.
   This bill would require the department, commencing on or before
July 1, 2011, to provide  in-person unemployment benefit
  unemployment insurance benefits  assistance at
all  state   comprehensive  one-stop career
centers  and department 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  and department workforce service offices  be funded
with existing moneys available to the department for the
administration of the unemployment compensation program, as
specified.  These provisions would remain in effect through
December 31, 2014. 
   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 14236 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   14236.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing on or before
July 1, 2011, the department shall provide in-person 
unemployment benefit assistance at all state one-stop career centers,
as follows:   unemployment insurance ben  
efits assistance at all comprehensive one-stop career centers and
department workforce service offices, as follows: 
   (1) The department shall ensure that customer service personnel at
those career centers  and department   workforce
service offices  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   those  one-stop career
centers  and department workforce service offices  .
   (b) The unemployment benefit assistance services required to be
provided at one-stop career centers  and department workforce
service offices pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be funded with
existing moneys available to the department for the administration
of the unemployment insurance compensation program. The department
shall reallocate existing resources, including staff and equipment to
implement the assistance required to be provided under this section.
The department shall also work with the state's one-stop career
center partners to use existing resources and office space in
one-stop career centers  and department workforce service offices
 to accommodate customer service personnel. 
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until the end of the
calendar day of December 31, 2014, and as of that date is repealed,
unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted on or before December
31, 2014, deletes or extends that date. 
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