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1 1 SENATE FILE 395
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
1 5 CONCERNING THE OFFSETTING OF UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
1 6 BENEFITS, UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR INMATES,
1 7 DEPARTMENTAL LIABILITY FOR THE RELEASE OF UNEMPLOYMENT
1 8 COMPENSATION RECORDS, THE VOLUNTARY SHARED WORK PROGRAM,
1 9 AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES EMPLOYEES, AND
1 10 PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
1 11
1 12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 13
1 14 Section 1. Section 96.3, Code 1997, is amended by adding
1 15 the following new subsection:
1 16 NEW SUBSECTION. 11. OVERISSUANCE OF FOOD STAMP BENEFITS.
1 17 The department shall collect any overissuance of food stamp
1 18 benefits by offsetting the amount of the overissuance from the
1 19 benefits payable under this chapter to the individual. This
1 20 subsection shall only apply if the department is reimbursed
1 21 under an agreement with the department of human services for
1 22 administrative costs incurred in recouping the overissuance.
1 23 The provisions of section 96.15 do not apply to this
1 24 subsection.
1 25 Sec. 2. Section 96.11, subsection 6, Code 1997, is amended
1 26 by adding the following new paragraph:
1 27 NEW PARAGRAPH. h. LIABILITY FOR RELEASE OF INFORMATION.
1 28 The department and its employees shall not be liable for any
1 29 acts or omissions resulting from the release of information to
1 30 any person pursuant to this subsection.
1 31 Sec. 3. Section 96.19, subsection 18, paragraph a,
1 32 subparagraph (6), subparagraph subdivision (f), Code 1997, is
1 33 amended by striking the subparagraph subdivision.
1 34 Sec. 4. Section 96.19, subsection 18, paragraph g, Code
1 35 1997, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
2 1 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH. (8) Services performed by an inmate of
2 2 a correctional institution.
2 3 Sec. 5. Section 96.40, subsection 9, Code 1997, is amended
2 4 by adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
2 5 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. An employer may provide as part
2 6 of the plan a training program the employees may attend during
2 7 the hours that have been reduced. If the employer is able to
2 8 show that the training program will provide a substantive
2 9 increase in the workplace and employability skills of the
2 10 employee so as to reduce the potential for future periods of
2 11 unemployment, the department shall relieve the employer of
2 12 charges for benefits paid to the individual attending training
2 13 under the plan. The employee may attend the training at the
2 14 work site utilizing internal resources, provided the training
2 15 is outside of the normal course of employment, or in
2 16 conjunction with an educational institution.
2 17 Sec. 6. 1996 Iowa Acts, chapter 1186, section 25, is
2 18 amended by adding the following new unnumbered paragraph:
2 19 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. If approved by the community
2 20 college and the department of workforce development, an
2 21 employee of a community college who currently provides
2 22 workforce development services under a contract with the
2 23 department of workforce development which was in existence as
2 24 of July 1, 1996, may become a state employee with the
2 25 department subject to the requirements of this paragraph. The
2 26 hiring provisions of chapter 19A and the provisions of any
2 27 collective bargaining agreement made pursuant to chapter 20
2 28 shall not apply to the initial placement of a new employee
2 29 into state service pursuant to this paragraph. A new state
2 30 employee employed pursuant to this paragraph shall retain any
2 31 vacation and sick leave hours previously accrued and their
2 32 accrued years of service. However, accrued years of service
2 33 shall not be used for the purpose of calculating years of
2 34 service for a retirement allowance under the Iowa public
2 35 employees' retirement system unless the employee was covered
3 1 under the system for those years of service. A new state
3 2 employee employed pursuant to this paragraph shall not suffer
3 3 any loss in salary unless the salary would exceed the current
3 4 allowable state salary for a position of comparable worth.
3 5 Except as provided in this paragraph, a new state employee
3 6 employed pursuant to this paragraph shall be entitled to
3 7 benefits offered to all state employees, but shall not be
3 8 entitled to benefits offered to an employee of a community
3 9 college but not to a state employee. For the purposes of
3 10 health benefits for a new state employee employed pursuant to
3 11 this paragraph, the eleven-month preexisting condition waiting
3 12 period is waived. For purposes of group health, dental, life,
3 13 and long-term disability coverage for a new state employee
3 14 employed pursuant to this paragraph, the thirty-day new
3 15 employee waiting period is waived.
3 16 Sec. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE – REPEAL. Section 6 of this Act,
3 17 amending 1996 Iowa Acts, chapter 1186, being deemed of
3 18 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment and is
3 19 repealed effective July 1, 1999.
3 20
3 21
3 22
3 23 MARY E. KRAMER
3 24 President of the Senate
3 25
3 26
3 27
3 28 RON J. CORBETT
3 29 Speaker of the House
3 30
3 31 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
3 32 is known as Senate File 395, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
3 33
3 34
3 35
4 1 MARY PAT GUNDERSON
4 2 Secretary of the Senate
4 3 Approved , 1997
4 4
4 5
4 6
4 7 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
4 8 Governor
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