BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Christine Kehoe, Chair
AB 1088 (Eng)
Hearing Date: 8/15/2011 Amended: 8/15/2011
Consultant: Bob Franzoia Policy Vote: G O 11-2
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BILL SUMMARY: AB 1088 would revise the collection and use of
demographic data for Asian and Pacific Islander groups and
require a state agency, board, or commission that collects
demographic data to include data on specified collection
categories and tabulations in every demographic report on
ancestry or ethnic origins of California residents that it
publishes or releases after July 1, 2012. This bill would
require specified agencies to use additional separate collection
categories and tabulations for other major Asian groups and
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander groups. This bill
would also require these agencies to update their data
collection categories to match those used by the US Census
Bureau. Agencies would be required to post the demographic data
on their Internet Web sites by July 1, 2012.
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 Fund
Revised demographic Significant initial costs depending
onGeneral/
data reporting requirement what, and how, data is
currently collected; Special/
minor ongoing costs Federal
New demographic data Major new costs to the extent
designatedGeneral/
collection and reporting agencies are collecting
demographic data Special
requirement and expand that data collection for
theadditional groups
Increased service Unknown, major cost pressure General/
delivery Federal
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AB 1088 (Eng)
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STAFF COMMENTS: This bill meets the criteria for referral to the
Suspense File.
Government Code 8310.5 which requires any state agency, board,
or commission which collects demographic data as to the ancestry
or ethnic origin to use separate collection categories and
tabulations was added by AB 814 (Floyd) Chapter 965/1989. A
list of those state agencies, boards, or commissions which
collect demographic data and any reports produced is
unavailable. To comply with the provisions of this code
section, agencies, boards, or commissions collecting this data
may have costs similar to the following preliminary estimate by
the Department of Justice (DOJ):
The DOJ would modify the existing Hawaiian and Guamanian
categories with "Native Hawaiian" and "Guamanian (also known as
Chamorro)." Information technology modifications would need to
be done to capture the revised race categories in existing
databases, systems and interfaces and on the Internet. Existing
staff would need to modify forms, manuals, and other
documentation, develop an informational bulletin to notice local
agencies of the revised race collection categories and to
respond to inquiries from local agencies.
This is estimated to require 80 hours for a Research Analyst II
to display crime and arrest data by the new race categories,
update documentation, create an information bulletin for local
agencies, revise data collection forms to include the new
race/ethnic categories and provide training to local agencies
($4,000). Additionally, 680 hours would be required for multiple
Staff Programmer Analysts to modify the California Restrained
and Protective Order System, Criminal Justice Center, Law
Enforcement Agency WEB, Missing and Unidentified Persons
Systems, Supervised Release File, and Wanted Person File. The
Automated Criminal History System would also require updating,
review and testing ($45,000).
The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) publishes Medi-Cal
Beneficiary Data files on its Internet web site. Specifically,
DHCS publishes information regarding Medi-Cal beneficiaries by
age/demographic that is updated quarterly. This information
contains beneficiary ethnicity and would need to be expanded to
encompass the new demographic category requirements.
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A preliminary estimate by the Department of Education to report
information in any document produced by the department indicates
in costs ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 annually depending on
how many reports/documents would be impacted.
This bill adds Government Code 8310.7 which requires four
departments to report new demographic information.
DHCS would have significant costs to update its data collection
to include the specified ethnicity categories. DHCS would be
required to modify various databases, including the Medi-Cal
Eligibility Data System (MEDS) and the Statewide Automated
Welfare System (SAWS) to include the additional ethnicity
collection categories and to post this data. The cost to revise
MEDS is estimated at $40,000 ($15,500 General Fund). The cost
to revise SAWS is unavailable at this time.
The Department of Public Health (DPH) would have significant
costs to modify its Electronic Birth and Death Reporting System
($27,000) and HIV/AIDS Surveillance Summary Reports ($85,000 in
2011-12 and $63,000 in 2012-13 and 2013-14.)
Neither DHCS nor DPH collect demographic data (gender, race,
age, disabilities, mobility, home ownership, employment status,
etc.) on these groups and will incur significant, potentially
major, costs to do so. This bill would require the collection
of data on numerically small populations. For example, based on
Census 2010 data indicating a state population of 37,253,956
(33,871,648 in 2000), there are 9,268 Bangladeshi and 2,979
Malaysians. Populations this small may not be statistically
significant.
This bill would have a minor fiscal impact on the Department of
Industrial Relations (DIR). DIR collects demographic data on
two forms used by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and
the apprenticeship database. DIR would have minor costs for
informational technology revisions and to update regulations and
an information document for equal opportunity in apprenticeship.
This bill would have a minor fiscal impact on Department of Fair
Employment and Housing (DFEH). DFEH investigates ancestry and
ethnic origin discrimination complaints and so currently
collects data on numerous groups. DFEH would have similar costs
to report and collect data under both code sections.
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In addition to the cost of taking California's diversity into
consideration when conducting surveys, there would be major
General Fund and federal fund cost pressure, as noted above, to
increase the amount spent per consumer to create purchase of
service parity between ethnic groups.
Staff notes Government Code 19799, amended by Chapter 965/1989,
refers to Hawaiian and for consistency purposes should be
amended to refer to Native Hawaiian.