SENATE BILL REPORT

SSB 5392

BYSenate Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Senators Warnke, Wojahn, Vognild, Smitherman, Williams, Talmadge, Bender, Rasmussen and Conner;by request of Joint Select Committee on Unemployment Insurance and Compensation)

Changing requirements for establishment of benefit years for unemployment compensation.

Senate Committee on Commerce & Labor

Senate Hearing Date(s):February 3, 1987; February 20, 1987

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5392 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

      Signed by Senators Warnke, Chairman; Smitherman, Vice Chairman; Tanner, Vognild, Williams, Wojahn.

Senate Staff:Mark McDermott (786-7429)

                  April 16, 1987

AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 18, 1987

BACKGROUND:

If an individual files an application for unemployment compensation and uses hours which were earned prior to filing of a previous claim, he/she have must earned six times the new weekly benefit amount in the last two quarters of the base year, in addition to the current requirement of 680 hours worked in the base year.

SUMMARY:

If an individual files an application for unemployment compensation and uses hours which were earned prior to filing of a new claim, he or she must have earned wages equal to or greater than six times the new weekly benefit amount since the start of the previous benefit year in addition to the current requirement of 680 hours worked during the base year.

Fiscal Note:      available

Senate Committee - Testified: Dave Tuvey, Employer Advisory Services; Graeme Sakrisen, Employment Security Department

HOUSE AMENDMENT:

The time frame for earning wages greater than or equal to six times the new weekly benefit amount is changed from the start of the previous benefit year to the start of the waiting week of the previous benefit year.