Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF2243

E Modifying certain provisions regulating unemployment insurance; + making
certain technical corrections; regulating and restricting the +authority of the
commissioner of employment and economic development (DEED) to +electronically
transmit notices, determinations or decisions to applicants or +employers;
applying general computation of time provisions to unemployment +insurance
provisions; defining or redefining certain terms, expanding the +definition of
noncovered employment to certain corporate officers and limited +liability
company (LLC) members; requiring or providing for employer electronic
transmission of registrations, notices and payments to the +commissioner,
providing a presumption; modifying certain provisions providing for +conversion
of noncovered employment to covered employment; providing for +protests in lieu
of appeals of certain determinations; expanding wage detail report +content and
filing or submission requirements; modifying the penalties for +failure to file
timely reports; modifying certain requirements for commissioner +maintenance of
tax or reimbursable accounts, notice of unemployment benefits paid +and
computation and notice of tax rates; modifying certain conditions for+ employer
annual payment of small liabilities; providing a presumption of +correct
determination by the commissioner of payments due from employers and +specifying
a priority for application of payments; eliminating certain +confession of
judgment requirements of employers and specifying conditions for +commissioner
assumption of reporting violations for tax estimation purposes, +modifying
certain interest assessment requirements; modifying certain lien, +levy and
garnishment requirements; changing the term willfully to knowingly +for personal
liability purposes; expanding a certain provision requiring +commissioner
cancellation of amounts due from employers; modifying the authority +of the
commissioner to compromise actions, determinations or decisions; +eliminating a
certain restriction on the establishment of second benefit accounts; eliminating
the authority to file for unemployment benefits by +telephone; requiring the
rounding of certain unemployment benefit amounts; +modifying certain provisions
requiring the deduction of social security +benefits from unemployment benefits;
exempting Canadian citizens from a certain +provision prohibiting the payment of
benefits to unauthorized aliens and +persons on involuntary or medical leaves of
absence from a certain provision +prohibiting the payment of benefits to
applicants on voluntary leave; modifying +certain exceptions to the prohibition
on the payment of benefits for +voluntary quit and modifying and providing for
the application of the provision +enumerating good reasons caused by employers
for quitting; clarifying the definition +of aggravated employment misconduct;
granting certain authority to +senior unemployment review judges, transferring
certain duties from the +commissioner to the judges; eliminating the authority
to appeal by telephone and +requiring the consideration of certain written
statements as appeals; modifying+ a certain provision regulating evidentiary
hearings and appeals; clarifying the+ offenses constituting fraud relating to
overpayments; modifying or clarifying +certain administrative penalty
provisions; authorizing the commissioner to +disseminate employer and
unemployment insurance processing agent names and +addresses necessary to
administer the unemployment insurance program; requiring+ the revisor of
statutes to renumber the statutory provision regulating +the workforce
development fund and to change certain terms (je, ja)