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1997 SESSION
SB 1089 Unemployment compensation; weekly benefit amount.
Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Unemployment compensation; weekly benefit amount. Reduces, by $250 a year over a three-year period, the current base period earnings of $3,250 required to qualify for unemployment compensation benefits.
In July 1999, when the provisions of this bill are completely phased in, an otherwise eligible claimant who earns $2,500 in the highest two quarters of his base period will receive weekly unemployment compensation benefits of $50. Additionally, the bill increases the maximum unemployment compensation benefits. The maximum benefits, currently $224 a week, will be increased by $2 a year over the next four years. By July 2000, an otherwise eligible claimant may receive a maximum unemployment compensation benefit of $232 a week.
The bill also modifies the unemployment compensation trust fund adequacy formula by (i) reducing from 25 to 20 the number of years (immediately preceding the year of calculation) from which the highest recorded benefit ratios are drawn and (ii) reducing from 1.5 to 1.38 the preliminary multiplier utilized in calculating the fund adequacy multiplier. Changes in employer tax rates resulting from fund adequacy multiplier and adequate fund balance recalculations will become effective on July 1, 1997. The Commission is required to immediately notify employers of their recomputed tax rates for wages paid during the final two quarters of 1997.
FULL TEXT
- 01/20/97 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 973646717 pdf
- 01/22/97 Senate: Introduced bill reprinted 973646717 pdf
- 02/03/97 Senate: Committee substitute printed 970631717-S1 pdf
- 02/10/97 House: Committee substitute printed 976223717-H1 pdf
- 03/04/97 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1089ER) pdf
- 03/21/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/20/97 Senate: Presented & ordered printed 973646717
- 01/20/97 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/22/97 Senate: Introduced bill reprinted 973646717
- 01/28/97 Senate: Assigned to C. & L. sub-committee: #4
- 02/03/97 Senate: Reported from C. & L. with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/97 Senate: Committee substitute printed 970631717-S1
- 02/04/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/97 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/04/97 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 970631717-S1
- 02/04/97 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - comm. sub. 970631717-S1
- 02/04/97 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/97 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/05/97 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/97 House: Read first time
- 02/06/97 House: Referred to Committee on Finance
- 02/07/97 House: Reported from Finance with sub. (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/97 House: Committee substitute printed 976223717-H1
- 02/10/97 House: Read second time
- 02/11/97 House: Read third time
- 02/11/97 House: Committee substitute agreed to 976223717-H1
- 02/11/97 House: Engrossed by House - com. sub. 976223717-H1
- 02/11/97 House: Passed House with substitute (Block Vote) (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/97 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/97 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/13/97 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/97 Senate: VOTE: CONCUR HOUSE AMENDMENT (38-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/97 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1089ER)
- 03/07/97 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/97 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/09/97 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/19/97 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 530 (effective 7/1/97)
- 03/21/97 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0530)