Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an individual laid off due to an employer going out of business

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 18, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 19, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill provides that the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an eligible individual 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 shall not exceed times the individual’s weekly benefit amount, rather than times the weekly benefit amount as provided under current law.

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 February 19, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Dawn Driscoll REmail
• Sen. William A. Dotzler Jr. DEmail
• Sen. Jeff Taylor REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§96.3

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works

Similar bills

• HF 2267 Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year
  91st General Assembly · In committee
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• HF 2384 Relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year
  91st General Assembly · In committee
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Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.