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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 96.3, subsection 5, Code 2001, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 5. DURATION OF BENEFITS. The maximum total amount of 1 4 benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit 1 5 year shall not exceed the total of the wage credits accrued to 1 6 the individual's account during the individual's base period, 1 7 or twenty-six times the individual's weekly benefit amount, 1 8 whichever is the lesser. The director shall maintain a 1 9 separate account for each individual who earns wages in 1 10 insured work. The director shall compute wage credits for 1 11 each individual by crediting the individual's account with 1 12 one-third of the wages for insured work paid to the individual 1 13 during the individual's base period. However, the director 1 14 shall recompute wage credits for an individual who is laid off 1 15 due to the individual's employer going out of business at the 1 16 factory, establishment, or other premises at which the 1 17 individual was last employed, by crediting the individual's 1 18 account with one-half, instead of one-third, of the wages for 1 19 insured work paid to the individual during the individual's 1 20 base period. Benefits paid to an eligible individual shall be 1 21 charged against the base period wage credits in the 1 22 individual's account which have not been previously charged, 1 23 in the inverse chronological order as the wages on which the 1 24 wage credits are based were paid. However if the state "off 1 25 indicator" is in effect and if the individual is laid off due 1 26 to the individual's employer going out of business at the 1 27 factory, establishment, or other premises at which the 1 28 individual was last employed, the maximum benefits payable 1 29 shall be extended to thirty-nine times the individual's weekly 1 30 benefit amount, but not to exceed the total of the wage 1 31 credits accrued to the individual's account. However, the 1 32 maximum total amount of benefits payable to an eligible 1 33 individual who is unemployed due to parental leave as defined 1 34 in section 96.19, subsection 38A, during a benefit year shall 1 35 not exceed the total of the wage credits accrued to the 2 1 individual's account during the individual's base period, or 2 2 twelve times the individual's weekly benefit amount, whichever 2 3 is the lesser. 2 4 The maximum total amount of benefits otherwise payable to 2 5 an eligible individual during a benefit year shall be reduced 2 6 by the total amount of benefits the individual receives as 2 7 unemployed due to parental leave during that benefit year. 2 8 Sec. 2. Section 96.4, subsection 1, Code 2001, is amended 2 9 to read as follows: 2 10 1. The individual has registered for work at and 2 11 thereafter has continued to report at an employment office in 2 12 accordance with such regulations as the department may 2 13 prescribe. The provisions of this subsection shall be waived 2 14 if the individual is deemed temporarily unemployed as defined 2 15 in section 96.19, subsection 38, paragraph "c", or is deemed 2 16 unemployed due to parental leave as defined in section 96.19, 2 17 subsection 38A. 2 18 Sec. 3. Section 96.4, subsection 3, Code 2001, is amended 2 19 to read as follows: 2 20 3. The individual is able to work, is available for work, 2 21 and is earnestly and actively seeking work. This subsection 2 22 is waived if the individual is deemed partially unemployed, 2 23 while employed at the individual's regular job, as defined in 2 24 section 96.19, subsection 38, paragraph "b", unnumbered 2 25 paragraph 1,ortemporarily unemployed as defined in section 2 26 96.19, subsection 38, paragraph "c", or unemployed due to 2 27 parental leave as defined in section 96.19, subsection 38A. 2 28 The work search requirements of this subsection and the 2 29 disqualification requirement for failure to apply for, or to 2 30 accept suitable work of section 96.5, subsection 3 are waived 2 31 if the individual is not disqualified for benefits under 2 32 section 96.5, subsection 1, paragraph "h". 2 33 Sec. 4. Section 96.5, subsection 1, Code Supplement 2001, 2 34 is amended by adding the following new paragraph: 2 35 NEW PARAGRAPH. k. The individual is unemployed due to 3 1 parental leave as defined in section 96.19, subsection 38A. 3 2 Sec. 5. Section 96.19, Code Supplement 2001, is amended by 3 3 adding the following new subsection: 3 4 NEW SUBSECTION. 38A. UNEMPLOYED DUE TO PARENTAL LEAVE. 3 5 An individual shall be deemed "unemployed due to parental 3 6 leave" in any week with respect to which no wages are payable 3 7 to the individual and during which the individual performs no 3 8 services and the individual has taken a leave of absence from 3 9 an employer or has left employment to be with a child during 3 10 the first year of the child's life or to be with an adopted 3 11 child during the first year following placement of the adopted 3 12 child with the individual. 3 13 EXPLANATION 3 14 This bill provides that a person who takes a leave of 3 15 absence or has left employment to be with a child or adopted 3 16 child for the first year after birth or placement for adoption 3 17 shall be entitled to up to 12 weeks of unemployment benefits. 3 18 The bill provides that the entitlement of up to 12 weeks of 3 19 benefits for parental leave does not increase the yearly 26- 3 20 week maximum benefits amount. The bill provides that the 3 21 able, available, and work search requirements and the 3 22 disqualification for voluntarily quitting do not apply to a 3 23 person who takes parental leave. 3 24 LSB 5234SS 79 3 25 ec/cf/24.1
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