Relating to work search requirements for unemployment insurance benefits, making penalties applicable, and including applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 24, 2019
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 30, 2019
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
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 authorizes an employer to report to the department of workforce development a job applicant who applies for a job for which the applicant does not meet the minimum lawful requirements or for which the applicant is manifestly unqualified. If such an individual claimed unemployment benefits for the week during which the application was made, the bill requires the department to provide the individual written notice that such a report has been made. If three such reports regarding an individual are made during the individual’s unemployment benefit year for applications during weeks in which the individual claimed unemployment benefits, the bill requires the department to initiate an investigation as to whether the individual was earnestly and actively seeking work during the weeks in question.

Full bill text¹

Senate subcommittee

Named January 30, 2019. Meeting: Monday, February 4 · 2:30 PM · Senate Lobbyist Lounge.

• Sen. Jim Carlin R
• Sen. Waylon Brown R
• Sen. R. Taylor

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