CHAPTER NUMBER: 169 
File Code: Unemployment Insurance
Crossfiled with: HOUSE BILL 798  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Senators Middleton, Exum, and Kelley (Unemployment Insurance
Funding Task Force) and Senators Astle, Della, Gladden, Hafer,
 Hooper, Klausmeier, Pipkin, and Teitelbaum
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
Unemployment Insurance - Charging and Taxation - Benefits -
Oversight Committee
 
Altering the unemployment insurance charging and taxation system;
altering the standard rate of contribution; increasing the maximum
weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount; increasing the amount of
wages used to compute a claimant's weekly benefit amount for partial
benefits; establishing an oversight committee; requiring the committee
to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before
specified dates; providing for the application of the Act; and
providing for the termination of the oversight committee.
Senate Action
- 2/4
 - First Reading Finance
 - 2/8
 - Hearing 3/1 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/8
 
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Finance
 - 3/9
 - Favorable with Amendments
 -      Committee Amendment Adopted
 -      Special Order 3/10 (Senator Stoltzfus) Adopted
 - 3/10
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/14
 - Third Reading Passed (46-0)
 - 4/5
 - Returned Passed
 
House Action
- 3/15
 - First Reading Economic Matters
 - 3/22
 - Hearing 3/24 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 4/6
 - Favorable Report by Economic Matters
 - 4/1
 - Favorable Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed
 - 4/2
 - Third Reading Passed (133-1)
 
Action after passage in Senate and House
- 4/26
 - Signed by the Governor Chapter 169
 
Sponsored by:
- Senator Thomas M. Middleton, District 28
 - Senator John C. Astle, District 30
 - Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 46
 - Senator Nathaniel Exum, District 24
 - Senator Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
 - Senator John J. Hafer, District 1
 - Senator J. Robert Hooper, District 35
 - Senator Delores G. Kelley, District 10
 - Senator Katherine Klausmeier, District 8
 - Senator E. J. Pipkin, District 36
 - Senator Leonard H. Teitelbaum, District 19
 
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
 - INSURANCE -see also- HEALTH INS; MAIF; MOTOR VEHICLE INS
 - REPORTS
 - REVENUE AND TAXES -see also- DEV FEES & TAXES; specific tax.
 - SUNSET
 - UNEMPLOYMENT
 - WORK, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT -see also- COL BARG; HOLIDAY; etc
 
Bill affects the following Statutes:
-   Labor and Employment
 - (
 8-608 ,
 8-609 ,
 8-610 ,
 8-612 ,
 8-803 
)
 
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
 First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
 - Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
 Available
 - Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
 Senate
- Number: 827876/01 (PDF)     Offered on: March 9, 2005       at:
11:06 a.m.     Status: Adopted
 
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
 Senate
- March 14, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (46-0)
 
House 
- April 2, 2005: Third Reading Passed  (133-1)