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AB-37 Unemployment insurance: reporting requirements: status of funds.(2013-2014)

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Amended  IN  Senate  August 12, 2013
Amended  IN  Senate  June 20, 2013
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 18, 2013

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2013–2014 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 37

Introduced by Assembly Member Perea

December 03, 2012

An act to add Section 10544.5 to the Water Code, relating to water resources amend Section 995 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 37, as amended, Perea. Integrated regional water management plans: funding: disadvantaged communities. Unemployment insurance: reporting requirements: status of funds.
Existing unemployment insurance law requires the Employment Development Department to submit to the Legislature in May and October of each year a report on the status of the Unemployment Fund and the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund, containing actual and forecasted information on each fund, as specified.
This bill would additionally require the department, whenever the Unemployment Fund indicates a negative balance, to include in the status report on the Unemployment Fund the estimated cost impact on employers from the changes in a specified federal tax credit and the estimated amount the state is expected to pay in interest charges on any outstanding loan to the federal government.

Existing law, the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002, authorizes a regional water management group, as defined, to prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management plan. The act requires an integrated regional water management plan to address specified water quality and supply matters.

Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006, an initiative bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 84 at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000 for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water, water quality and supply, flood control, and resource protection program. Existing law, with regard to these bond funds, appropriates $181,791,000 to the State Department of Public Health for integrated regional water management activities, and requires, for certain of those funds, that the department allocate not less than 10% to facilitate and support the participation of disadvantaged communities in integrated regional water management planning and for projects that address critical water supply or water quality needs for disadvantaged communities.

This bill would require in each integrated regional water management region that not less than 10% of any funding for integrated regional water management planning purposes be used to facilitate and support the participation of disadvantaged communities in integrated regional water management planning and for projects that address critical water supply or water quality needs for disadvantaged communities.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 995 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read:

995.
 The (a) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, the department shall submit to the Legislature in May and October of each year a report on the status of the Unemployment Fund and the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund. Each report shall include both actual and forecasted information on the fund balances, receipts, disbursements, claim data, tax rates, and employment levels.
(b) Whenever the Unemployment Fund indicates a negative balance, the department shall include in the status report on the Unemployment Fund the estimated cost impact on employers from the changes in the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) tax credit and the estimated amount the state is expected to pay in interest charges on any outstanding loan to the federal government.

SECTION 1.Section 10544.5 is added to the Water Code, to read:
10544.5.

In each integrated regional water management region, not less than 10 percent of any funding for the purposes of this part shall be used to facilitate and support the participation of disadvantaged communities in integrated regional water management planning and for projects that address critical water supply or water quality needs for disadvantaged communities.