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