California Assembly Bill AB1514 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1514INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Committee on Insurance MARCH 5, 2015 An act to amend Sections 2614, 4902, and 4903 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to unemployment insurance. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1514, as introduced, Committee on Insurance. Employment Development Department: reports. Existing law requires the Director of Employment Development to report to the Legislature by June 30 of each year on the Employment Development Department's fraud deterrence and detection activities. This bill would instead require the report to be made to specified committees of the Legislature. Existing law requires the director to prepare and report to specified committees of the Legislature and the State Office of Information Technology on the department's automation plans, including recommendations on improvements and long-term goals and strategies. Existing law requires the report to provide a strategic information plan. This bill would revise what committees are to receive the report, as specified, and replace references to the State Office of Information Technology with the California Department of Technology. 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 2614 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read: 2614. The director shall report to the  Legislature   Assembly Committee on Insurance, Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations  by June 30 of each year on the department' s fraud deterrence and detection activities. SEC. 2. Section 4902 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read: 4902. The report, required by Section 4901, shall be transmitted to the Legislative Analyst, the Assembly Committees on Insurance,  Consumer Protection, Governmental Efficiency, and Economic Development,  Labor and Employment, and  Ways and Means,   Budget,  the Senate Committees on Industrial Relations and Budget and Fiscal Review, the Department of Finance, and the Governor, on or before February 1 of each even-numbered year. The report shall do all of the following: (a) Provide a strategic information  technology  plan that describes the long-term goals and strategies which shall be undertaken by the department to create an information technology environment that will not only support the achievement of the department's strategic business mission and goals but set the foundation for using information technology to make substantial and sustainable improvements in how it conducts business. The plan shall cover a 10-year planning horizon and include the department's information vision, its information management principles, and long-term goals and strategies for achieving its information vision. (b) Provide a tactical information plan of specific automation and infrastructure projects to be undertaken within three years of the date of the report. The plan shall include project description and scope, consistency with the strategic information plan, relationship to other projects, priority of development, estimated project costs and benefits, and improvements in services. For automation projects, it shall also provide reductions in personnel and operating costs, and identification of how personnel and cost savings will be used, transferred, or otherwise accounted for. (c) Not necessarily be in addition to or replace any reports now submitted by the director to the  State Office of Information Technology in the Department of Finance.   California Department of Technology.  SEC. 3. Section 4903 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read: 4903. (a) Thirty days prior to the release of the report identified in Section 4901, the director shall submit it to the  Office of Information Technology in the Department of Finance,   California Department of Technology,  which shall review and comment on it. These comments shall be attached to the report by the director and distributed with the report. (b) When commenting on the report, the  Office of Information Technology   California Department of Technology  shall include, but not be limited to, an assessment of whether: (1) The requirements for the report have been met. (2) The strategic plan is consistent with the formal strategic plan submitted separately to the  Office of Information Technology.   California Department of Technology.  (3) The costs and benefits identified in the report are consistent with the projects previously submitted for approval or contained in the Information Management Annual Plans.