BILL NUMBER: AB 2601	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Furutani

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 3656 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2601, as introduced, Furutani. Unemployment insurance: extended
duration benefits: extended duration award computation.
   Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to
make an extended duration award computation upon the filing of a
valid primary claim by an exhaustee, as defined, and notify the
exhaustee of the computation. Existing law provides that the
exhaustee may protest the accuracy of the computation within a
specified time period and requires the department to consider the
protest and promptly notify the exhaustee of the recomputation or
denial of recomputation.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3656 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   3656.  Upon the filing of a valid primary claim by an exhaustee,
the department shall promptly make an extended duration award
computation  which   that  shall set forth
the maximum amount of extended duration benefits potentially payable
during the extended duration period, the weekly benefit amount, and
the expiration date of the extended duration period. The department
shall promptly notify the exhaustee of the computation.  He
  The exhaustee  may, within 20 days after the
mailing or personal service of the notice of computation, protest its
accuracy. The 20-day period may be extended for good cause. The
department shall consider  any such   the 
protest and shall promptly notify the exhaustee of the recomputation
or denial of recomputation. An appeal may be taken from a notice of
denial of recomputation in the manner prescribed in Section 3655. The
director shall be an interested party to any appeal.
   "Good cause," as used in this section, shall include, but not be
limited to, mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.