BILL NUMBER: AB 391	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 391, as amended, Pan. 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, 2012, to provide unemployment insurance benefits assistance
in  at least one  comprehensive one-stop career
center in  each   5  workforce investment
 area   areas  , as prescribed. The bill
would require that the unemployment benefit assistance services
required to be provided at these one-stop career centers 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, 2015.
   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, 2012, the department shall provide in-person unemployment
insurance benefits assistance in  at least one  
a  comprehensive one-stop career center in  each
  five  workforce investment  area
  areas  , as described in the  federal 
Workforce Investment Act  of 1998, as determined by the
department  , as follows:
   (1) The department shall ensure that customer service personnel at
those career centers 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 those one-stop career centers.
   (b) The unemployment benefit assistance services required to be
provided at one-stop career centers 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   by  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 to
accommodate customer service personnel.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until the end of the
calendar day of December 31, 2015, and as of that date is repealed,
unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted on or before December
31, 2015, deletes or extends that date.