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Providing for disqualification for unemployment benefits due to separation from short-term employment with a fixed end date and including applicability provisions
Sponsored by the Senate Workforce Committee
Topics:Jobs & workers
Same legislation: SSB 1111
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 25, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 an individual is disqualified for unemployment benefits if the department of workforce development finds that the individual became separated from employment due to the conclusion of employment of a fixed period of 180 days or less, provided the department makes additional findings about the employment specified in the bill. Employment subject to the bill shall not be considered taxable wages for purposes of unemployment taxes, and any tax contribution by an employer for such employment shall be eligible for a refund.
Read the full explanation
The bill provides that a contract described in the bill shall not be construed as an agreement to waive, release, or commute the rights to benefits or any other rights under Code chapter 96. The bill applies to employment beginning on or after the effective date of the bill.
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 12, 2025 (as SSB 1111). On February 20, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§96.5
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Lobbying
2 for · 8 against · 18 undecided · Who →
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