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SF 1197 Senate Long Description

2E Conforming state law to federal stimulus funding requirements, modifying unemployment insurance base period definition by adding primary and secondary base periods and allowing an alternate base period, defining immediate family member; modifying the definition of reemployment assistance training and available suitable employment; modifying certain suitable employment determination provisions, allowing employers to provide wage detail information for benefit accounts on applicants within a certain period of time for applicants using alternate base period and for wage details not yet required, specifying benefit account requirements for primary base and secondary base periods, expanding conditions for unemployment insurance benefit eligibility to include persons quitting employment due to necessary care of an immediate family member illness, injury, or disability, expanding the definition of domestic abuse to include applicants quitting for relocation purposes in order to accompany a spouse under certain conditions; modifying and clarifying the definition of employment misconduct; appropriating federal money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment act to the commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) for unemployment insurance administration costs; specifying certain federal conformity requirements
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