SB1941ham003 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Jay Hoffman

Filed: 11/14/2016

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1941

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1941, AS AMENDED, by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by changing Section 403 as follows:

(820 ILCS 405/403) (from Ch. 48, par. 403)

Sec. 403. Maximum total amount of benefits.

A. With respect to any benefit year beginning prior to September 30, 1979, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits as shall be determined in the manner set forth in this Act as amended and in effect on November 9, 1977.

B. With respect to any benefit year beginning on or after September 30, 1979, except as otherwise provided in this Section, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 26 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. With respect to any benefit year beginning in calendar year 2012, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 25 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. If the maximum amount includable as "wages" pursuant to Section 235 is $13,560 with respect to calendar year 2013, then, with respect to any benefit year beginning after March 31, 2013 and before April 1, 2014, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 25 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. With respect to any benefit year beginning in calendar year 2018, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 24 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller.

C. With respect to any benefit year beginning on or after December 1, 2016 and prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, any otherwise eligible individual whose total or partial unemployment is attributable to a layoff by his or her employer who is a manufacturer of steel shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 52 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller.

If, prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, such individual has received the maximum total amount of benefits to which he or she was entitled under this Act for the benefit year, the individual shall be entitled to extended benefits equal to the maximum total amount of benefits established under this subsection C minus the benefits received prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly.

The benefit year for any person entitled to benefits under this subsection C shall be extended by an additional 12 months to accommodate the additional benefits provided under this subsection C.

The provisions of Section 607 and the waiting period requirements of Section 500D shall not be applicable to any week with respect to which benefits are otherwise payable under this subsection C.

(Source: P.A. 99-488, eff. 12-4-15.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".