Existing law establishes the Employment Development Department within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency for the purpose of job creation activities and administering the unemployment and disability insurance coverage systems. Existing law authorizes the department, by regulation, to prescribe the information required to be reported by employing units and employers subject to withholding tax.

Existing law requires persons serving a prison term for specified offenses, upon release, to be subject to community supervision provided by a county agency designated by each county’s board of supervisors. Each person eligible for postrelease community supervision is required by existing law to enter into a postrelease community supervision agreement.

This bill would require the Employment Development Department to gather information as to specific employers that would be willing to employ people who have been incarcerated in a state prison or county jail. The bill would require the department to make a list of those employers, sorted by county, available to the public. The bill would also require the department to send the list to the supervising county agency and require the supervising county agency to give the list for that county to a person who has entered into a postrelease community supervision agreement. By creating additional duties for county agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.