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AB-1350 • 2026

Employment Development Department: policies and practices.

Employment Development Department: policies and practices.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hart
Last action
2026-02-02
Official status
From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide details on whether the change will affect unemployment benefits or fraud prevention practices beyond the reporting requirements.

Changes to Unemployment Fraud Prevention

This law changes how the Employment Development Department checks its tools for stopping unemployment fraud from once a year to every two years starting in January 2027.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the department to review and check its tools that stop unemployment fraud less often, changing from yearly to every two years starting in January 1, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Employment Development Department
  • Legislative committees that receive reports from the Employment Development Department

Terms To Know

Unemployment compensation
Money given to people who are out of work and meet certain requirements.
Biennially
Every two years.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify how the changes will affect unemployment benefits or fraud prevention in practice.
  • It is unclear if this change will save money for the state or make it harder to catch fraud quickly.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

  2. 2026-01-31 California Legislative Information

    Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.

  3. 2025-03-10 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on INS.

  4. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Read first time.

  5. 2025-02-22 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  6. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1350, as introduced, Hart.
Employment Development Department: policies and practices.
Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to administer a program for the payment of unemployment compensation to the eligible unemployed. Existing law requires the department to periodically review policies and practices used to determine eligibility and benefits that result in delayed eligibility unemployment determinations or benefit payments and that fail to identify or prevent fraud.
Existing law required the department to provide specified committees of the Legislature with a plan for assessing the effectiveness of its fraud prevention and detection tools by May 1, 2022, and to provide a report to those committees with an update on its progress on performing this assessment by July 1, 2022. Existing law requires the department to annually analyze and assess the effectiveness of its fraud prevention and detection tools and
to submit this analysis and assessment to those committees, as specified.
This bill would revise those annual requirements to, instead, require the department to analyze and assess the effectiveness of its fraud prevention and detection tools and to submit this analysis and assessment to those committees, biennially commencing on January 1, 2027.

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