SENATE BILL REPORT
SB 5392
BYSenators 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)
February 25, 1987
AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR, FEBRUARY 20, 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.
SUMMARY:
If an individual files an application for unemployment compensation and uses hours which were earned prior to filing of a previous claim, he/she must have earned wages in the last two quarters of the base year.
EFFECT OF PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE:
An individual must have earned six times the new weekly benefit amount since the beginning of the previous benefit year.
Fiscal Note: available
Senate Committee - Testified: Dave Tuvey, Employer Advisory Sservices; Graeme Sakrisen, Employment Security Department