Bill Text: CA AB2689 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2689 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Identity theft: unemployment insurance base wage file.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-02 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2689 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2689-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2689	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk-Silva

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 322.5 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to identity theft.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2689, as introduced, Quirk-Silva. Identity theft: unemployment
insurance base wage file.
   Existing law creates the Employment Development Department and
requires that it pay unemployment compensation benefits to
individuals who meet specified requirements, are unemployed, as
defined, and file a valid claim for these benefits. Existing law
requires employers to send the department specified information
regarding their employees, including wage information and social
security numbers. The department maintains a file of wage records of
employees for the purpose of computing earnings in a base period to
establish amounts for unemployment benefits. Existing law requires
the director of the department to share information in its possession
under specified circumstances.
   This bill would require the department to review, at least once
each year, the information in its unemployment insurance base wage
file, to identify if multiple names are associated with a single
social security number. The bill would require the department,
whenever it discovers 3 or more names associated with a single social
security number, to inform the Department of Justice of this, along
with relevant supporting information, as a potential incidence of
identity theft.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 322.5 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   322.5.  The department shall review, at least once each year, the
information in its unemployment insurance base wage file, to identify
instances in which multiple names are associated with a single
social security number. Whenever the department discovers as part of
this review, or in the course of any other investigation or
circumstance, three or more names associated with a single social
security number, it shall inform the Department of Justice of this
fact, along with relevant supporting information, as a potential
incidence of identity theft.