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House Study Bill 561

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 85.60, Code 2003, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    85.60  INJURIES WHILE IN EMPLOYMENT TRAINING OR EVALUATION.
  1  4    A person participating in a school-to-work program referred
  1  5 to in section 85.61, or receiving earnings while engaged in
  1  6 employment training or while undergoing an employment
  1  7 evaluation under the direction of a rehabilitation facility
  1  8 approved for purchase-of-service contracts or for referrals by
  1  9 the department of human services or the department of
  1 10 education, who sustains an injury arising out of and in the
  1 11 course of the school-to-work program participation, employment
  1 12 training, or employment evaluation is entitled to benefits as
  1 13 provided in this chapter, chapter 85A, chapter 85B, and
  1 14 chapter 86.  Notwithstanding the minimum benefit provisions of
  1 15 this chapter, a person referred to in this section and
  1 16 entitled to benefits under this chapter is entitled to receive
  1 17 a minimum weekly benefit amount for a permanent partial
  1 18 disability under section 85.34, subsection 2, or for a
  1 19 permanent total disability under section 85.34, subsection 3,
  1 20 equal to the weekly benefit amount of a person whose gross
  1 21 weekly earnings are thirty-five percent of the statewide
  1 22 average weekly wage computed pursuant to section 96.3
  1 23 determined by the department of workforce development under
  1 24 section 96.19, subsection 36, and in effect at the time of the
  1 25 injury.
  1 26    Sec. 2.  Section 96.3, subsection 4, Code Supplement 2003,
  1 27 is amended to read as follows:
  1 28    4.  DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS.  With respect to benefit
  1 29 years beginning on or after July 1, 1983, an An eligible
  1 30 individual's weekly benefit amount for a week of total
  1 31 unemployment shall be an amount equal to the following
  1 32 fractions of the individual's total wages in insured work paid
  1 33 during that quarter of the individual's base period in which
  1 34 such total wages were highest; and the director shall
  1 35 determine annually a maximum weekly benefit amount shall equal
  2  1 to the following percentages amounts, both to vary with the
  2  2 number of dependents, of the statewide average weekly wage
  2  3 paid to employees in insured work which shall be effective the
  2  4 first day of the first full week in July:  
  2  5 If the        The weekly        Subject to
  2  6 number of     benefit amount    the following
  2  7 dependents    shall equal       maximum
  2  8 is:           the following     percentage of
  2  9               fraction of high  the statewide
  2 10               quarter wages:    average
  2 11                                 weekly wage:
  2 12 0             1/23              53% $292
  2 13 1             1/22              55% $303
  2 14 2             1/21              57% $314
  2 15 3             1/20              60% $330
  2 16 4 or more     1/19              65% $358
  2 17 The maximum weekly benefit amount, if not a multiple of one
  2 18 dollar shall be rounded to the lower multiple of one dollar.
  2 19 However, until such time as sixty-five percent of the
  2 20 statewide average weekly wage exceeds one hundred ninety
  2 21 dollars, the maximum weekly benefit amounts shall be
  2 22 determined using the statewide average weekly wage computed on
  2 23 the basis of wages reported for calendar year 1981.  As used
  2 24 in this section "dependent" means dependent as defined in
  2 25 section 422.12, subsection 1, paragraph "c", as if the
  2 26 individual claimant was a taxpayer, except that an individual
  2 27 claimant's nonworking spouse shall be deemed to be a dependent
  2 28 under this section.  "Nonworking spouse" means a spouse who
  2 29 does not earn more than one hundred twenty dollars in gross
  2 30 wages in one week.
  2 31    Sec. 3.  Section 96.19, subsection 37, paragraph a, Code
  2 32 2003, is amended by striking the paragraph and inserting in
  2 33 lieu thereof the following:
  2 34    a.  Nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.  
  2 35                           EXPLANATION
  3  1    This bill provides for the amount of an eligible
  3  2 individual's maximum weekly benefit to be equal to a specific
  3  3 dollar amount calculated by varying fractions of the statewide
  3  4 average weekly wage reported in the calendar year 2001,
  3  5 depending on the number of the individual's dependents.  A
  3  6 conforming amendment is made to Code section 85.60.
  3  7    The bill provides that taxable wages shall be $19,200
  3  8 (unless the federal taxable wage base is higher), rather than
  3  9 an amount varying by year calculated by multiplying the
  3 10 statewide average weekly wage by 66.66 percent, multiplied by
  3 11 52.  The amount of $19,200 represents 66.66 percent of the
  3 12 statewide average weekly wage for 2001 ($551.29), multiplied
  3 13 by 52 and rounded to the next highest multiple of $100.  
  3 14 LSB 5359YC 80
  3 15 kk/gg/14

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