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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

Topics:Jobs & workers

Same legislation: SF 466

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
  2. Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2025
  3. Done: Senate committeeFebruary 25, 2025
  4. Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 466
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Became SF 466 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 466 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary People who lose their jobs because a short-term contract ended could be denied unemployment benefits. This rule applies to jobs that last 180 days or less. The state department must make specific findings about the job before denying the money.1

Read the official explanation

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. S.F. _____ The bill applies to employment beginning on or after the effective date of the bill.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named February 12, 2025. On February 20, 2025 it recommended passage.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§96.5

How the Code works3

Lobbying

2 for · 8 against · 18 undecided · Who →

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