Bills › 90th General Assembly
Concerning eligibility for unemployment benefits
Topics:Jobs & workers
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 8, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to unemployment benefits. Under current law, the department of workforce development may establish by rule a process to waive or alter the work search requirements for a claim for 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”, which is defined as a layoff period of weeks or less due to seasonal weather conditions that impact the ability to perform work related to highway construction, repair, or maintenance with a specific return-to-work date verified by the employer.
Read the full explanation
The bill changes the defined term to “short-term seasonal temporary layoff”, and strikes the language that the work to be performed must be related to highway construction, repair, or maintenance. The bill provides that benefits shall not be denied to an eligible individual for refusing to accept work if the individual has a reasonable expectation that the individual will be returning to employment, as defined by the department by rule, and is attached to a regular job or industry or is 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 seasonal temporary layoff. The bill provides that benefits shall not be denied to an eligible individual for refusing to accept work if the individual is unemployed due to the individual’s employer temporarily ceasing operations or going out of business at the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the individual was last employed; the reason for the employer going out of business was a result of unforeseen circumstances; and the individual has a reasonable expectation that the individual will be returning to employment with the employer that temporarily ceased operations or went out of business.
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 30, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Iowa Code it changes
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Lobbying
8 for · 0 against · 11 undecided · Who →
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- SF 372 Concerning eligibility for unemployment benefits91st General Assembly · In committeeVery similar
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