95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4733


 
Introduced , by Rep. John E. Bradley
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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    Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an employer shall
not be chargeable for any benefit charges that result from the payment of benefits
to any individual for any weeks of unemployment during a closure or reduction in operations at the employer's building, work site, or other facility that is  directly attributable to a natural disaster or an accident such as a fire or flood.
















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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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accidents. Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 1502.1, 
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no employer located in an Illinois county that
has, during 
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1993, been declared a federal disaster area due to flooding 
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shall
be chargeable for any benefit charges which result from 
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the 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 flooding.

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    Notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 1502.1, with 
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respect to any week beginning on or after the effective date of 
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this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, an employer 
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shall
not be chargeable for any benefit charges that result 
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from the payment of benefits
to any individual for any weeks of 
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unemployment during a closure or reduction in operations at the 
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employer's building, work site, or other facility that is  
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directly attributable to a natural disaster or an accident such 
 


 






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as a fire or flood. 
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(Source: P.A. 88-518.)