Bill Text: CA AB391 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Secondhand dealers and pawnbrokers: electronic reporting.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-33)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 172, Statutes of 2012. [AB391 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB391-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 391	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan
    (   Principal coauthor:   Senator 
 Steinberg   ) 

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2011

    An act to add and repeal Section 14236 of the
Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.
  An act to add Section 399.32 to the Public Utilities
Code, relating to energy. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 391, as amended, Pan.  Workforce development: one-stop
career centers.   Energy: renewable energy resources:
local publicly owned electric utility.  
   Existing law creates the California renewables portfolio standard
program (RPS program) and the Renewable Energy Resources Program to
increase the amount of electricity generated per year from eligible
renewable energy resources, as defined.  
   Existing law, effective on ____, requires the governing board of a
local publicly owned electric utility, as defined, to adopt a
program for the enforcement of the RPS program on or before January
1, 2012. The governing board of a local publicly owned electric
utility is authorized to adopt rules permitting the utility to apply
excess procurement in one compliance period to subsequent compliance
periods in the same manner as allowed for retail sellers, as defined.
 
   This bill would, instead, authorize rules permitting the local
utility to apply excess procurement in one compliance period to
subsequent compliance periods in the same manner as allowed for
retail sellers, with certain specified exceptions.  
   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 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 comprehensive one-stop career center in 5 workforce investment
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
  no  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 399.32 is added to the 
 Public Utilities Code   , to read:  
   399.32.  Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of
Section 399.30, the governing board of a local publicly owned
electric utility may adopt rules permitting the utility to apply
excess procurement of eligible renewable energy resources from one
compliance period to subsequent compliance periods in the same manner
as allowed for retail sellers pursuant to Section 399.13, with the
following exceptions:
   (a) Consistent with subdivision (b), excess procurement of
eligible renewable energy resources from a contract of more than
seven years in duration that was executed before January 1, 2010, may
be applied to subsequent compliance periods without any
restrictions.
   (b) Excess procurement accumulated through December 31, 2010, may
be applied to subsequent compliance periods if all of the following
conditions are satisfied:
   (1) The excess is calculated based on annual eligible renewable
energy resources procurement targets in effect since 2006.
   (2) The procurement targets, as amended, specified the achievement
of not less than a 20 percent renewables portfolio standard by no
later than December 31, 2010.
   (3) The procurement targets increased for each intervening year
before 2010.  
  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 a comprehensive one-stop career
center in five workforce investment 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 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.