2E Relating to unemployment insurance

ARTICLE 1 - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE POLICY

Expanding the immediate family member definition to include grandparents;
clarifying the weekly benefit amounts and wage credits necessary to establish a benefit account; modifying the suitable employment wage credits provision; modifying the special assessment for interest on federal loans for taxpaying employers; modifying the unemployment benefit account requirements for establishment and eligibility determinations;
modifying payments delaying unemployment benefits, including sick time and personal time off pay (PTO); modifying ineligibility duration and the authorization for dislocated workers entrepreneurship

ARTICLE 2 - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE HOUSEKEEPING

Making changes of a grammatical and housekeeping nature; modifying the definitions of base period, noncovered employment, and wages

ARTICLE 3- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Modifying the state dislocated worker program definitions by adding a definition for an individual determined by the federal government to be covered by trade adjustment assistance; modifying a contractor department of employment and economic development (DEED) reporting requirement
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