House File 219 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 219 BY AMOS , SCHOLTEN , LEVIN , ABDUL-SAMAD , SRINIVAS , COOLING , KURTH , BAETH , and BROWN-POWERS A BILL FOR An Act relating to temporary unemployment for purposes of 1 eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1877YH (2) 90 je/rn

H.F. 219 Section 1. Section 96.1A, subsection 37, paragraph c, Code 1 2023, is amended to read as follows: 2 c. An individual shall be deemed “temporarily unemployed” 3 if for a period, verified by the department, not to exceed 4 four consecutive weeks, the individual is unemployed due 5 to a plant shutdown, vacation, inventory, lack of work, or 6 emergency from the individual’s regular job or trade in which 7 the individual worked full-time and will again work full-time, 8 if the individual’s employment, although temporarily suspended, 9 has not been terminated. 10 EXPLANATION 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 12 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 13 This bill strikes a requirement that a period of temporary 14 unemployment, for purposes of eligibility for unemployment 15 benefits, cannot exceed four weeks. An individual who is 16 temporarily unemployed is exempt from registering for work at 17 an employment office and from being able to work, available for 18 work, and earnestly and actively seeking work in order to be 19 eligible for unemployment benefits. 20 -1- LSB 1877YH (2) 90 je/rn 1/ 1