republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1514.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment Development Department: training benefits: reports."
description: "Existing law provides unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law, the California Training Benefits Program, until January 1, 2019, authorizes an unemployed individual, who is otherwise eligible for unemployment benefits, to apply to the Employment Development Department for a determination of potential eligibility for benefits during a period of training or retraining."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1514"
citation: "California AB 1514 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Employment Development Department: training benefits: reports."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Insurance"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-03-05"
last_action: "2015-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1971bcd-7976-43f9-be29-fffd8dd1b048"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514"
source_hash: "92cf13fd81c0fdbb556e139a711311733e0c20c5379639a0714e942473e2d8c6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1514 (20152016) — Employment Development Department: training benefits: reports.

Existing law provides unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law, the California Training Benefits Program, until January 1, 2019, authorizes an unemployed individual, who is otherwise eligible for unemployment benefits, to apply to the Employment Development Department for a determination of potential eligibility for benefits during a period of training or retraining.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/05/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514&version=20150AB151499INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514&version=20150AB151498AMD)
3. **08/17/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514&version=20150AB151496CHP)
4. **AB1514** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514)
5. **07/09/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1514&version=20150AB151497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1514 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1514 INS. By Mendoza — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Insurance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-03-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-06** From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1110.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-22** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1786.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2015-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 224, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c1971bcd-7976-43f9-be29-fffd8dd1b048`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).