BILL NUMBER: AB 816AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 15, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Hagman ( Coauthor: Assembly Member Ma ) FEBRUARY 26, 2009 An act to repeal and add Section 1611.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 816, as amended, Hagman. Unemployment insurance: Employment Training Fund. Existing law establishes the Employment Training Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury, and requires that specified contributions collected from employers, as defined, on wages be deposited in, or transferred to, the fund for use for certain purposes related to employment training and development. Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states, with California's version of this program being known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Existing law authorizes the Legislature to appropriate from the Employment Training Fund an amount specified in the annual Budget Act to fund the local assistance portion of welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKs program, as provided for pursuant to a specified provision of existing law. This bill would repeal those provisions authorizing the Legislature to appropriate that amount in the annual Budget Act from the fund to fund the local assistance portion of welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKs program , and would instead provide that moneys in the Employment Training Fund shall not be appropriated for any other purpose other than those specified . 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 Section 1611.5 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is repealed. SEC. 2. Section 1611.5 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code , to read: 1611.5. Moneys in the Employment Training Fund shall only be appropriated for the purposes specified in Section 1611 and shall not be appropriated for any other purpose.