Unemployment insurance: penalties.

Existing law provides that any person who fails to file any return or report required by the Unemployment Insurance Code, or who makes, renders, signs, or verifies any false or fraudulent return, report, or statement, or supplies any false or fraudulent information, is liable for a civil penalty of a specified amount, and a violation of that provision is a misdemeanor that is punishable by a fine, imprisonment for a specified period, or both the fine and imprisonment. Existing law also provides that all penalties collected under specified provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Code are deposited into the Employment Development Department Contingent Fund, which is a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would increase the civil penalty described above by a specified amount. This bill would make an appropriation by providing for the deposit of increased penalties into the Employment Development Department Contingent Fund.