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HF 655 Senate Long Description

"Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Program Law"; modifying certain provisions regulating the payment 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 (Ch. 175, 2001)