Bill Text: CA AB2184 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Unemployment insurance: benefits: eligibility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-04 - Re-referred to Com. on INS. [AB2184 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2184-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 31, 2022 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Wicks |
February 15, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law provides that an unemployed individual is eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if the Director of Employment Development makes specified findings with respect to that individual.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1253.13 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:1253.13.
(a) An unemployed individual who is in all respects otherwise eligible for unemployment compensation benefits shall not be deemed ineligible, and shall be considered as being able to and available for work as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1253, for any week in which any of the following applies:An unemployed individual is eligible to receive unemployment compensation benefits with respect to any week only if the director finds that:
(a)A claim for benefits with respect to that week has been made in accordance with authorized regulations.
(b)The individual has registered for work, and thereafter continued to report, at a public employment office or any other place as the director may approve. Either or both of the requirements of this subdivision may be waived or altered by
authorized regulation as to partially employed individuals attached to regular jobs.
(c)The individual was able to work and available for work for that week.
(d)The individual has been unemployed for a waiting period of one week as defined in Section 1254, unless this waiting period has been waived pursuant to Section 8571 of the Government Code.
(e)The
individual conducted a search for suitable work in accordance with specific and reasonable instructions of a public employment office.
(f)The individual participated as required by the director in reemployment activities, such as orientation and assessment if the individual has been identified pursuant to an automated profiling system as likely to exhaust regular unemployment benefits unless the individual has shown good cause for failure to participate.