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                                                                  AB 1088
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          Date of Hearing:   May 18, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                     AB 1088 (Eng) - As Amended:  April 25, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            7 - 0 

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires every state agency, board, or commission to 
          use additional separate collection categories and tabulations 
          for every major Asian and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 
          group, including 20 that are specifically listed in the 
          legislation. Specifically, this bill: 

          1)Requires every state agency, board or commission to use the 
            additional separate collection categories and tabulations for 
            every major Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 
            group.

          2)Requires every agency to include that data in every 
            demographic report on ancestry or ethnic origins of 
            Californians released after July 1, 2012.

          3)Requires the following departments to make their data publicly 
            available by posting it on their websites:

             a)   Department of Health Care Services
             b)   Department of Public Health
             c)   Department of Industrial Relations
             d)   Department of Fair Employment and Housing

          4)Requires every state agency, within 18 months of the release 
            of the United States Census data, update their data collection 
            to reflect any additional Asian groups and additional Native 
            Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups. 

           FISCAL EFFECT 









                                                                  AB 1088
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          Combined costs for the affected departments, agencies, 
          commissions and boards for form changes and computer 
          reprogramming could be in the range of tens of millions of 
          dollars (GF/Prop 98). The most heavily impacted department would 
          likely be the California Department of Education which would 
          need to modify 11 data systems and for local education agencies 
          (LEAs) which would be required to modify their data systems.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  . According to the author's office, the diversity of 
            Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) 
            communities makes it critical that data be collected for 
            separate ethnic groups.  The author argues that "AB 1088 would 
            ensure that state-collected health, social services, labor, 
            and civil rights data is disaggregated into additional AANHPI 
            ethnic groups, as currently reported by the U.S. Census."

           2)Related Legislation  . This bill is substantially similar to AB 
            1737 (Eng) from 2010.  However AB 1737 limited the data 
            collection and tabulation requirements to eight state 
            departments.  That bill was held on this committee's suspense 
            file


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916) 
          319-2081