Senate File 2058 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  HATCH


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act providing unemployment compensation benefits to
  2    individuals who leave employment to care for a family member
  3    who is mentally or physically disabled.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 5661SS 82
  6 ak/rj/5

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 96.5, subsection 1, paragraph c, Code
  1  2 Supplement 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  The individual left employment for the necessary and
  1  4 sole purpose of taking care of a member of the individual's
  1  5 immediate family who was then injured or ill, and if after
  1  6 said member of the family sufficiently recovered, the
  1  7 individual immediately returned to and offered the
  1  8 individual's services to the individual's employer, provided,
  1  9 however, that during such period the individual did not accept
  1 10 any other employment or physically or mentally disabled, and
  1 11 whom a licensed physician certified as needing care for the
  1 12 performance of daily living activities.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    This bill allows an individual who leaves a job in order to
  1 15 care for an immediate family member who is ill or injured or
  1 16 who is mentally or physically disabled to qualify for
  1 17 unemployment compensation if a licensed physician certifies
  1 18 that the family member needed assistance for the performance
  1 19 of daily living activities.
  1 20    The bill strikes requirements that the individual returned
  1 21 to the individual's employer and offered the individual's
  1 22 services immediately after the family member may have
  1 23 sufficiently recovered and did not accept any other employment
  1 24 during this time.
  1 25 LSB 5661SS 82
  1 26 ak/rj/5