Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1130

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
(je)