House File 542 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 542 BY COMMITTEE ON LABOR (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 144) A BILL FOR An Act relating to eligibility requirements for individuals 1 claiming unemployment insurance benefits in consecutive 2 benefit years and including effective date provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1628HV (2) 87 je/rj

H.F. 542 Section 1. Section 96.4, subsection 4, paragraph c, Code 1 2017, is amended to read as follows: 2 c. If the individual has drawn benefits in any benefit 3 year, the individual must during or subsequent to that year, 4 work in and be paid wages for insured work totaling at least 5 two hundred fifty dollars eight times the individual’s weekly 6 benefit amount , as a condition to receive benefits in the next 7 benefit year. 8 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect July 2, 2017. 9 EXPLANATION 10 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 11 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 12 This bill increases the amount of wages an individual who 13 has drawn unemployment benefits in a benefit year must be paid 14 for insured work during or subsequent to that year in order to 15 be eligible to receive benefits in the next benefit year. The 16 amount is increased from $250 to eight times the individual’s 17 weekly benefit amount. 18 The bill takes effect July 2, 2017. 19 -1- LSB 1628HV (2) 87 je/rj 1/ 1