Unemployment insurance.

Existing law authorizes the Director of the Employment Development Department to adopt regulations for the administration of unemployment insurance benefit claims. Existing law requires an administrative agency to meet procedural requirements, as specified, before an agency adopts, amends, or repeals an administrative regulation. This bill would authorize the Employment Development Department to temporarily suspend unemployment insurance regulations that slow the disbursement of unemployment insurance benefits. This bill would also require the department and the Bureau of State Audits to publish a study of unemployment insurance regulations that includes a list of regulations to be suspended and to present the findings of the study and the list of regulations to the relevant legislative committees. This bill would also authorize the Legislature to extend, by statute, the suspension of any or all of the suspended regulations.