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2005 SESSION

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SB 1201 Unemployment tax rate; penalties for transfering any trade or business for a lower tax rate.

Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Unemployment compensation; state unemployment tax dumping; penalties. Establishes the civil and criminal penalties that shall be assessed against, and the unemployment compensation tax rates that shall apply to, persons who transfer any trade or business to another where at the time of transfer there is substantially common ownership, management, or control of the trade or business and the sole or primary purpose of the transfer is to obtain a lower unemployment tax rate. Provisions prohibiting such transfers of a trade or business and imposing penalties will become effective in the first rate year as set forth in federal law. This bill is identical to HB 2137.

FULL TEXT

• 01/12/05  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21  pdf | impact statements
• 02/08/05  Senate: Printed as engrossed 054324108-E  pdf | impact statements
• 03/02/05  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1201ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 03/23/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047)  pdf

AMENDMENTS

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HISTORY

• 01/12/05  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/21
• 01/12/05  Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
• 01/19/05  Senate: Rereferred from G.L. (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/19/05  Senate: Rereferred to Commerce and Labor
• 02/07/05  Senate: Reported from C. & L. with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: Read second time
• 02/08/05  Senate: Reading of amendment waived
• 02/08/05  Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
• 02/08/05  Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1201E
• 02/08/05  Senate: Printed as engrossed 054324108-E
• 02/08/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/08/05  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/10/05  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/10/05  House: Read first time
• 02/10/05  House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
• 02/15/05  House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N)
• 02/17/05  House: Read second time
• 02/18/05  House: Read third time
• 02/18/05  House: Passed House (97-Y 0-N)
• 02/18/05  House: VOTE: PASSAGE EMERGENCY (97-Y 0-N)
• 03/02/05  Senate: Enrolled
• 03/02/05  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1201ER)
• 03/03/05  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/04/05  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/20/05  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 47 (effective 3/20/05)
• 03/23/05  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0047)