House Study Bill 144 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON LABOR BILL BY CHAIRPERSON DEYOE) 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 1628YC (1) 87 je/rj

H.F. _____ 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 year, 3 the individual must during or subsequent to that year, work 4 in and be paid wages for insured work totaling at least two 5 hundred fifty dollars ten times the individual’s weekly benefit 6 amount , as a condition to receive benefits in the next benefit 7 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 15 to be eligible to receive benefits in the next benefit year. 16 The amount is increased from $250 to 10 times the individual’s 17 weekly benefit amount. 18 The bill takes effect July 2, 2017. 19 -1- LSB 1628YC (1) 87 je/rj 1/ 1