Senate File 2058 - Introduced
SENATE FILE
BY HATCH
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
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:
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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.
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