republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2227.md

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Bill	Unemployment insurance: violations.	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 makes it a violation to, among other things, willfully make a false statement or representation to obtain, increase, reduce, or defeat any benefit or payment under the specified provisions administered by the department. Existing law requires that the place of trial for specified violations of unemployment insurance laws be in the county of residence or principal place of business of the defendant or defendants, or in any county where the defendant or defendants were transacting business that resulted in the alleged offenses. Existing law requires the trial to be held in the County of Sacramento if the defendant has no residence or principal place of business in this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2227	California AB 2227 (20232024)	bill	Unemployment insurance violations	enacted	Hoover	4	17	5	2024-02-07	2024-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/0c3134c4-b67d-4e64-97fe-9477409b4479	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2227	45337a8af367442248450804996d0163ebebf0ee8484af06ac84610be881375e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2227 (20232024) — Unemployment insurance: violations.

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 makes it a violation to, among other things, willfully make a false statement or representation to obtain, increase, reduce, or defeat any benefit or payment under the specified provisions administered by the department. Existing law requires that the place of trial for specified violations of unemployment insurance laws be in the county of residence or principal place of business of the defendant or defendants, or in any county where the defendant or defendants were transacting business that resulted in the alleged offenses. Existing law requires the trial to be held in the County of Sacramento if the defendant has no residence or principal place of business in this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/15/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB2227 (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2227 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hoover — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2024-02-26 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4997.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-08 Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2024-06-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-06-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4626.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-20 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2024-07-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c3134c4-b67d-4e64-97fe-9477409b4479. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).