Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0167

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)