Bills › 89th General Assembly
Concerning unemployment insurance and including effective date and applicability provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Ways and Means Committee
Topics:Jobs & workersTaxes
Same legislation: SSB 1273
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedApril 26, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeApril 26, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeApril 28, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 concerns unemployment insurance under Code chapter 96. The bill defines “able to work”, for purposes of unemployment benefits, to mean the individual is physically and mentally able to perform work. The bill defines “available for work”, for purposes of unemployment benefits, to mean the individual is ready and willing to accept suitable work. The bill defines “severance pay”, for purposes of Code chapter 96, as any payment in connection with separation from employment that is not conditioned on the individual giving up any legal right or the release of any rights.
Read the full explanation
The bill strikes language requiring the director of the department of workforce development to recompute wage credits for purposes of calculating an individual’s maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year. The stricken language applied to an individual who is laid off due to the individual’s employer going out of business at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual was last employed by crediting the individual’s account with one-half, instead of one-third, of the wages for insured work paid to the individual during the individual’s base period. The bill also strikes language providing an additional weeks of benefits to such individuals if the state “off” indicator, which relates to the rate of insured unemployment in the state, is in effect. The bill authorizes the department of workforce development to establish by rule a process to waive or alter the work search requirements for a claim for unemployment benefits if an individual has a reasonable expectation that the individual will be returning to employment and is attached to a regular job or industry or a member in good standing of a union therein eligible for referral for employment. To be considered attached to a regular job or industry, an individual must be on a short-term temporary layoff, as defined in the bill. The bill authorizes an employer to request an extension of the waiver or alteration as specified in the bill. The bill provides that in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits, an individual must satisfy a single one-week waiting period during the individual’s benefit year. To satisfy the one-week waiting period, the individual, with respect to the week in question, must be eligible for benefits from this state, but must not have received benefits from this state, and must not be eligible for benefits from another state. The provision of the bill providing for a process to waive or alter the work search requirements for a claim for unemployment benefits takes effect upon enactment. The remainder of the bill takes effect July 1, 2022. The provision of the bill providing for a process to waive or alter the work search requirements for a claim for unemployment benefits applies to any new claim of unemployment benefits beginning on or after the first Sunday after the effective date of that provision. The provision of the bill providing for a one-week waiting period in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits applies to any new claim of unemployment benefits beginning on or after July 3, 2022. The remainder of the bill applies to any week of unemployment benefits beginning on or after July 3, 2022.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Senate subcommittee
Named January 19, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Sen. Dan Dawson REmail
- Sen. Tim Goodwin R
- Sen. T. Taylor
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Fiscal note
Cost: up to $251,000 Compare with other bills
0 full-time equivalent (FTE) Workforce Advisor positions within IWD due to elimination of the benefit to claimants when employers go out of business, reducing federal UI administrative expenses by an estimated $251,000 beginning in FY 2023, and increasing via inflation every year thereafter. 6 million annually beginning in FY 2023.
- Unemployment Trust Fund · May 3, 2021
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Iowa Code it changes
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Lobbying
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- HF 531 Concerning unemployment insurance and including effective date and applicability provision…88th General Assembly · Passed both chambers · same titlePassed a chamber
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