House File 980 H-1318 Amend House File 980 as follows: 1 1. Page 1, after line 19 by inserting: 2 < Sec. ___. Section 96.3, subsection 5, paragraph a, Code 3 2025, is amended to read as follows: 4 a. Duration of benefits. The maximum total amount of 5 benefits payable to an eligible individual during a benefit 6 year shall not exceed the total of the wage credits accrued to 7 the individual’s account during the individual’s base period, 8 or sixteen twenty-six times the individual’s weekly benefit 9 amount, whichever is the lesser. The director shall maintain 10 a separate account for each individual who earns wages in 11 insured work. The director shall compute wage credits for 12 each individual by crediting the individual’s account with 13 one-third of the wages for insured work paid to the individual 14 during the individual’s base period. However, the director 15 shall recompute wage credits for an individual who is laid 16 off due to the individual’s employer going out of business at 17 the factory, establishment, or other premises at which the 18 individual was last employed, by crediting the individual’s 19 account with one-half, instead of one-third, of the wages for 20 insured work paid to the individual during the individual’s 21 base period. Benefits paid to an eligible individual shall 22 be charged against the base period wage credits in the 23 individual’s account which have not been previously charged, 24 in the inverse chronological order as the wages on which the 25 wage credits are based were paid. However if the state “off” 26 indicator is in effect and if the individual is laid off due to 27 the individual’s employer going out of business at the factory, 28 establishment, or other premises at which the individual was 29 last employed, the maximum benefits payable shall be extended 30 to twenty-six thirty-nine times the individual’s weekly benefit 31 amount, but not to exceed the total of the wage credits accrued 32 to the individual’s account. > 33 2. Title page, line 1, by striking < taxes on employers > 34 3. By renumbering as necessary. 35 -1- HF 980.1740 (3) 91 je/js 1/ 2 #1. #2.