95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB3456


 
Introduced 2/28/2007, by Rep. Brandon W. Phelps
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














820 ILCS 405/1502.3









    Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an employer located in an Illinois county that has been declared a federal disaster area (rather than a federal disaster area due to flooding) is not chargeable for benefit charges resulting from benefits paid to an individual during the federal disaster to the extent the employer shows that the individual's unemployment was a direct result of the federal disaster (rather than a direct result of flooding).
















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HB3456

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    AN ACT concerning employment.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 1502.3 as follows:
 



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    (820 ILCS 405/1502.3)



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    Sec. 1502.3. Benefit charges; federal disasters. 
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Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer 
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located in an Illinois county that
has, during 1993, been 
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declared a federal disaster area due to flooding shall
be 
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chargeable for any benefit charges which result from the 
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payment of benefits
to any individual for any weeks of 
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unemployment during the period of the
federal disaster, but 
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only to the extent that the employer can show that the

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individual's unemployment was a direct result of the federal 
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disaster
flooding.

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(Source: P.A. 88-518.)