Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1277

E "Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Program Law"; modifying certain provisions
regulating the payment of unemployment insurance; updating the public policy
statement; modifying the definitions of base period and clarifying the
definitions of unemployment benefits and wages; modifying certain employer tax
or reimbursable accounts maintenance requirements of the commissioner of
economic security; restricting reimbursable accounts to nonprofit or government
employers; modifying the general rule for the payment or charging of
unemployment benefits, requiring use in computing the future tax rate of
taxpaying base period employers or charged to reimbursable accounts of base
period nonprofit or government employers electing to be liable for payments in
lieu of taxes, limiting exceptions; clarifying certain notice and protest review
requirements of the commissioner relating to unemployment benefits paid;
modifying the computation of taxpaying employer experience ratings and
clarifying the provision providing for experience rating transfers; reducing the
minimum period for the state or local government units to elect to be taxpaying
employers and modifying certain requirements for termination; providing
retroactive coverage for Indian tribes; specifying the liability of employers
for failure to comply with tax delinquency or benefit overpayment garnishment
requirements; requiring employees to be unemployed at the time of application
for benefits; clarifying the maximum amount of benefits available; authorizing
the backdating of applications for benefits under certain conditions; clarifying
the disqualification of persons on voluntary leave from benefits eligibility and
disqualifying from eligibility applicants failing or refusing to provide certain
required information; expanding the provision disqualifying applicants receiving
severance pay from eligibility to bonus, vacation, sick or back pay for
clarification purposes; clarifying the workers compensation or disability
insurance offset; clarifying the provision defining available for employment,
authorizing applicants to restrict availability to suitable employment;
authorizing retroactive reactivation of inactive benefit accounts; providing
eligibility for benefits for certain victims of domestic abuse; failing to
request an additional job assignment after completion of a temporary job
assignment from a staffing service employer to be considered a voluntary quit,
defining staffing service employer and specifying certain staffing service
employer notice requirements; clarifying the application of the provision
disqualifying applicants from benefits for failure to accept offers of
employment; expanding benefits application content requirements; modifying
certain commissioner disqualification determination requirements; making
optional the requirement for the commissioner to assess interest on
overpayments; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference and term change
instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain previous changes to a
certain provision prohibiting the charging of benefits under welfare to work
programs (je, ja)