4E Relating to unemployment insurance

ARTICLE 1 - POLICY CHANGES

Modifying the definition of base period; modifying provisions relating to
determinations of coverage; providing a certain exception to employers in the tourist or recreation industry; modifying certain employers taxes tax rate notice provisions; eliminating protest provisions for payment to trust fund by nonprofit organizations; modifying credit adjustments and refund provisions; eliminating protest provisions under personal liability; clarifying benefit account provisions; modifying the offset provisions of certain social security benefits from unemployment insurance modifying certain ineligibility provisions; modifying evidentiary hearings by unemployment law judge; modifying overpayments due to fraud provisions; modifying unemployment insurance trust fund provisions and administration account provisions; repealing provisions relating to single member limited liability companies, annual payment of small liabilities, recreational or tourist industry employment eligibility requirements and protests by electronic transmission

ARTICLE 2 - POLICY AND TECHNICAL CHANGES

Modifying the date for determination of the state average annual and average weekly wage; reducing the number of employees employers report by electronic payment; reducing the time period for licensee appeals of business license revocations; reducing the time period for subcontractor and employee leasing firms appeals for liability determination purposes; modifying provision for the repayments of overpayments; reducing the time limit for the right of appeal; modifying deductible earnings provisions under eligibility requirements; modifying certain appeal provisions; modifying reciprocal unemployment benefit
arrangements; modifying nonfraud overpayments under unemployment benefit overpayments provisions; modifying administrative penalties provisions; requiring determinations subject to an appeal to an unemployment law judge to indicate the day of the week and the date the determination is final and no longer subject to appeal; specifying instructions to the revisor

ARTICLE 3 - HOUSEKEEPING PROVISIONS

Making certain housekeeping modifications; specifying certain instructions to the revior of statutes

ARTICLE 4 - ADMINISTRATIVE RULES INCORPORATED INTO STATUTES

Incorporating long standing administrative rules into statute; specifying certain instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing certain rules

ARTICLE 5 - TERMINOLOGY CHANGE

Substituting the term disqualify or similar terms with the term ineligible or
similar terms; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes

ARTICLE 6 - STYLE CHANGES

Providing for style changes to conform to preferred modern statutory drafting conventions for the use of clear, concise and plain language

ARTICLE 7 - EXTRA BENEFITS

Providing extra unemployment benefits for certain workers laid off from the
Ainsworth lumber company plants in Bemidji, Cook, and Grand Rapids; providing extra funds from the unemployment insurance trust fund; specifying eligibility conditions and legislative findings; sunset provision

ARTICLE 8 - FILING REQUIREMENT WAIVER

Requiring the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to accept continued requests for unemployment benefits and pay unemployment benefits for an applicant previously employed as a technician or inspector for Northwest Airlines, Inc. meeting certain criteria
(Ch. 128, 2007)