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Bill	Unemployment insurance: eligibility for benefits: notification.	Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment insurance program in this state, and provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law provides for penalties and interest if any person or employing unit is delinquent in the payment of any contributions for unemployment insurance, and authorizes the Director of Employment Development to collect the delinquency or enforce any state tax liens by levy served personally or by certified mail. Existing law requires that, if the levy is made on a deposit or credits or personal property in the possession or under the control of a bank or savings and loan association, the notice of levy shall be delivered or mailed to the branch or office of the bank or savings and loan association at which the deposit is carried or at which credits or personal property is held.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2538	California AB 2538 (20092010)	bill	Unemployment insurance: eligibility for benefits: notification.	enacted	Niello	6	23	6	2010-02-19	2010-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/27e00433-f52e-4ebb-bf92-e3ba82910feb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2538	8fc0c2c5a877dd1faf53085aaad257b3ef6f8f99b313978aaeb11d96f1b33905	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2538 (20092010) — Unemployment insurance: eligibility for benefits: notification.

Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to implement and administer the unemployment insurance program in this state, and provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits to eligible individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law provides for penalties and interest if any person or employing unit is delinquent in the payment of any contributions for unemployment insurance, and authorizes the Director of Employment Development to collect the delinquency or enforce any state tax liens by levy served personally or by certified mail. Existing law requires that, if the levy is made on a deposit or credits or personal property in the possession or under the control of a bank or savings and loan association, the notice of levy shall be delivered or mailed to the branch or office of the bank or savings and loan association at which the deposit is carried or at which credits or personal property is held.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/28/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2538 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #30 AB2538 Niello — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2538 NIELLO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2538 NIELLO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Niello — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2010-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2010-03-18 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2010-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2010-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-20 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 5343.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-06-10 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2010-06-29 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2010-08-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-04 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2010-08-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4410.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6161.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
• 2010-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 392, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27e00433-f52e-4ebb-bf92-e3ba82910feb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).