Bill Text: CA SJR18 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Emergency Unemployment Compensation: extension.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 74-2)

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-15 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 18, Statutes of 2014. [SJR18 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SJR18-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SJR 18	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  18
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  APRIL 15, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 10, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 11, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Beall and Corbett
   (Coauthors: Senators Block, Calderon, Cannella, De León,
DeSaulnier, Evans, Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso,
Jackson, Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Padilla, Pavley,
Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Vidak, Wolk, and Yee)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Ammiano, Atkins, Bonilla,
Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Cooley,
Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Garcia, Gatto,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Hall, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Levine, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Pan, Perea, John A.
Pérez, V. Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Rodriguez,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Weber, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada)

                        JANUARY 16, 2014

   Relative to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 18, Beall. Emergency Unemployment Compensation: extension.
   This measure would proclaim the Legislature's support for the
extension of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and
would memorialize the United States Congress to promptly renew the
extension of unemployment benefits.



   WHEREAS, In 2008, the United States suffered its worst economic
crisis since the Great Depression; and
   WHEREAS, The economic downturn resulted in a 10 percent
unemployment rate nationwide by 2009, and a rate as high as 12.4
percent in California; and
   WHEREAS, When unemployment benefits were first authorized, the
national unemployment rate was only 5.6 percent; and
   WHEREAS, Now the current unemployment rate is at 7 percent and 36
states, including California, have higher rates of unemployment; and
   WHEREAS, California's unemployed workers currently face one of the
toughest job markets in the country, with statewide unemployment at
8.5 percent and three unemployed workers for every available job; and

   WHEREAS, In 2009, Congress passed the Emergency Unemployment
Compensation (EUC) program which extended benefits to those out of
work for up to 99 weeks to give relief to many that have endured an
extended period of unemployment. Unemployed workers in California
receive 37 weeks of EUC, and 26 weeks of state benefits, averaging
just two hundred ninety-two dollars ($292) a week; and
   WHEREAS, On December 28, 2013, the EUC program expired without an
extension from Congress. On that day, 214,000 unemployed workers ran
out of EUC in California and 12,500 more will be doing so daily; and
   WHEREAS, As of February 24, 2014, close to 1,273,100 unemployed
workers in California have run out of all available unemployment
benefits; and
   WHEREAS, The EUC program brought $4.5 billion in benefits to the
California economy in 2013 alone; and
   WHEREAS, It is crucial for the United States government to take
action in renewing the EUC program and extending the unemployment
benefits that millions of people direly need; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature supports the extension of
the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and respectfully
memorializes the United States Congress to promptly renew the
extension of unemployment benefits that will tremendously aid
millions of people; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority and
Minority Leaders of the Senate, each Senator and Representative from
California in the Congress of the United States, and to the author
for appropriate distribution.