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

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2021
2. ✕
   Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
3. Next: House committee
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 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, 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 percent of the amount the employer failed to pay.

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• HF 24 Increasing certain penalties for employers willfully misclassifying employees for unemploy…
  88th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee

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