BILL NUMBER: AB 2310	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Morrell
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Garrick, Hagman, Harkey, Jeffries,
Jones, Portantino, Silva, Smyth, and Wagner)
   (Coauthors: Senators Cannella, Dutton, Harman, and Walters)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add Section 1255.4 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2310, as introduced, Morrell. Unemployment insurance benefits:
governmental pension and retirement payments.
   Existing law provides for unemployment compensation benefits to
eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own.
Existing law also provides that, insofar as federal law requires that
state unemployment insurance law contains such a provision of
certification, the amount of unemployment compensation benefits,
extended duration benefits, and federal-state extended benefits
payable to an individual in a period with respect to which that
individual is receiving a governmental or other pension, retirement
or retired pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment shall
be reduced by an amount equal to the amount of the pension,
retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other payment reasonably
attributable to that week, as specified.
   This bill would provide that the amount of unemployment
compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state
extended benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins
after January 1, 2013, in a period with respect to which that
individual is receiving a governmental pension, retirement or retired
pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment, and which is
based on the previous work of the individual, shall be reduced by an
amount equal to the amount of the pension, retirement or retired pay,
annuity, or other payment, which is reasonably attributable to that
week, without a requirement from federal law, as 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 1255.4 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   1255.4.  Notwithstanding any other law, the amount of unemployment
compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, and federal-state
extended benefits payable to an individual for any week which begins
after January 1, 2013, in a period with respect to which that
individual is receiving a governmental pension, retirement or retired
pay, annuity, or any other similar periodic payment, and which is
based on the previous work of the individual, shall be reduced, but
not below zero, by an amount equal to the amount of the pension,
retirement or retired pay, annuity, or other payment, which is
reasonably attributable to that week.