California Assembly Bill AB2601 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2601INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Furutani FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 3656 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2601, as introduced, Furutani. Unemployment insurance: extended duration benefits: extended duration award computation. Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to make an extended duration award computation upon the filing of a valid primary claim by an exhaustee, as defined, and notify the exhaustee of the computation. Existing law provides that the exhaustee may protest the accuracy of the computation within a specified time period and requires the department to consider the protest and promptly notify the exhaustee of the recomputation or denial of recomputation. This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to those provisions. 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 3656 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read: 3656. Upon the filing of a valid primary claim by an exhaustee, the department shall promptly make an extended duration award computation  which   that  shall set forth the maximum amount of extended duration benefits potentially payable during the extended duration period, the weekly benefit amount, and the expiration date of the extended duration period. The department shall promptly notify the exhaustee of the computation.  He   The exhaustee  may, within 20 days after the mailing or personal service of the notice of computation, protest its accuracy. The 20-day period may be extended for good cause. The department shall consider  any such   the  protest and shall promptly notify the exhaustee of the recomputation or denial of recomputation. An appeal may be taken from a notice of denial of recomputation in the manner prescribed in Section 3655. The director shall be an interested party to any appeal. "Good cause," as used in this section, shall include, but not be limited to, mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.