Bill Text: CA AB1159 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Employment Development Department: reports.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1159 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1159-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1159

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Introduced by Assembly Member Daly

February 18, 2021

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An act to amend Sections 4901 and 4902 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to the Employment Development Department.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1159, as introduced, Daly. Employment Development Department: reports.

Existing law creates the Employment Development Department within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction regarding job creation activities. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to prepare a biennial report to the Legislature on the department’s automation plans, including recommendations for improvements, as specified, and transmit the report to specified individuals and legislative entities on or before February 1 of each even-numbered year.

This bill would instead require the report to be prepared and transmitted annually on or before March 31 of each year.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 4901 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read:

4901.

 The director shall prepare a biennial an annual report to the Legislature, on or before February 1, 1994, March 31, 2022, and on or before February 1 March 31 of each even-numbered year thereafter, on the department’s automation plans, including any recommendation on improvements for the purpose of consideration by both policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature.

SEC. 2.

 Section 4902 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read:

4902.

 The report, required by Section 4901, shall be transmitted to the Legislative Analyst, the Assembly Committees on Insurance, Labor and Employment, and Budget, the Senate Committees on Industrial Relations and Budget and Fiscal Review, the Department of Finance, and the Governor, on or before February 1 March 31 of each even-numbered year. The report shall do all of the following:

(a) Provide a strategic information technology plan that describes the long-term goals and strategies which shall be undertaken by the department to create an information technology environment that will not only support the achievement of the department’s strategic business mission and goals but set the foundation for using information technology to make substantial and sustainable improvements in how it conducts business. The plan shall cover a 10-year planning horizon and include the department’s information vision, its information management principles, and long-term goals and strategies for achieving its information vision.

(b) Provide a tactical information plan of specific automation and infrastructure projects to be undertaken within three years of the date of the report. The plan shall include project description and scope, consistency with the strategic information plan, relationship to other projects, priority of development, estimated project costs and benefits, and improvements in services. For automation projects, it shall also provide reductions in personnel and operating costs, and identification of how personnel and cost savings will be used, transferred, or otherwise accounted for.

(c) Not necessarily be in addition to or replace any reports now submitted by the director to the California Department of Technology.