Minnesota Session Laws - 2011, Regular Session

CHAPTER 6--H.F.No. 103

An act

relating to unemployment insurance; modifying certain eligibility and extension provisions;

amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 268.085, subdivision 9.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 268.085, subdivision 9, is amended to read:

Subd. 9.

Business owners.

(a) Wage credits from an employer may not be used for unemployment benefit purposes by any applicant who:

(1) individually, jointly, or in combination with the applicant's spouse, parent, or child owns or controls directly or indirectly 25 percent or more interest in the employer; or

(2) is the spouse, parent, or new text begin minor new text end child of any individual who owns or controls directly or indirectly 25 percent or more interest in the employer.

This subdivision is effective when the applicant has been paid five times the applicant's weekly unemployment benefit amount in the current benefit year. This subdivision does not apply if the applicant had wages paid in covered employment of $7,500 or more from the employer covered by this subdivision in each of the 16 calendar quarters prior to the effective date of the benefit account and all taxes due on those wages have been paid.

(b) An officer of a taxpaying employer referred to in section 268.046, subdivision 1, is subject to the limitations of this subdivision.

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2010. new text end

Sec. 2.

new text begin MODIFICATION OF "STATE 'ON' INDICATOR" IN CERTAIN INSTANCES. new text end

new text begin Notwithstanding the "either of the prior two calendar years" requirement in Minnesota Statutes, section 268.115, subdivision 1, clause (2), for when extended unemployment benefits are available, if the cost of extended unemployment benefits is 100 percent federally funded, a requirement of "any of the prior three calendar years" will be used. This section is enacted to conform to the temporary changes to the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 as enacted by Congress in Public Law 111-312. new text end

new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end

new text begin This section is effective retroactively from December 19, 2010. This section expires when federal law no longer allows a three-year lookback period. new text end

Presented to the governor March 8, 2011

Signed by the governor March 9, 2011, 3:02 p.m.