HF 219 (LSB 1877YH (2) 90)

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 eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 96.1A, subsection 37, paragraph c, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   c.  An individual shall be deemed “temporarily unemployed” if for a period, verified by the department, not to exceed four consecutive weeks, the individual is unemployed due to a plant shutdown, vacation, inventory, lack of work, or emergency from the individual’s regular job or trade in which the individual worked full-time and will again work full-time, if the individual’s employment, although temporarily suspended, has not been terminated.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill strikes a requirement that a period of temporary unemployment, for purposes of eligibility for unemployment benefits, cannot exceed four weeks. An individual who is temporarily unemployed is exempt from registering for work at an employment office and from being able to work, available for work, and earnestly and actively seeking work in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits.