Increasing certain penalties for employers willfully misclassifying employees for unemployment compensation contribution purposes

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill provides that if the department of workforce development finds that an employer willfully failed to pay any contribution for state unemployment compensation with intent to defraud the department, and that the failure to pay by the employer involved the misclassification of an employee’s wages on a federal 1099 record, for any subsequent finding by the department of such a failure to pay by that employer involving the misclassification of an employee’s wages on a federal 1099 record, the additional contribution penalty required by Code section 96.14(2)(e) shall equal 100 percent of the amount the employer failed to pay due to misclassification. Current law provides that such an additional contribution penalty equals 50 percent of the amount the employer failed to pay.

Full bill text¹

House subcommittee

Named January 22, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Rep. Linda L. Upmeyer R
• Rep. Cecil Dolecheck R
• Rep. Bruce Hunter D

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