BILL NUMBER: AB 2604INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fong FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 12140 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2604, as introduced, Fong. Unemployment insurance: job creation experimental program. Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to administer a specified job creation grant program intended to encourage voluntary participation by employers in the private sector, in the creation of permanent employment opportunities, as provided. Existing law provides that nothing in those provisions shall be construed to impose upon any employer who is participating in a job creation experimental program any requirement beyond what is contained in other provisions of law with respect to which persons shall or may be hired by that employer to fill job vacancies created by the operation of the experimental program. This bill would make various nonsubstantive, technical changes in the above provisions relating to the experimental job creation program. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 12140 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read: 12140. Nothing in this division shall be construed to impose upon any employer who is participating ina joban employment creation experimental program under this division any requirement beyond what is contained in other provisions of law with respect towhatwhich persons shall or may be hired bysuchthat employer to fill jobvacanciesopportunities created by the operation of the experimental program.