HB4405 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB4405

Introduced 1/21/2022, by Rep. Chris Bos

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 405/607

from Ch. 48, par. 437

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an individual who is receiving unemployment benefits may notify the Department of Employment Security that the individual elects to interrupt his or her eligibility period so that the individual may engage in temporary employment. Provides that an individual who makes such an election is ineligible for benefits during the period of interruption. Provides that, when the temporary employment ends, the individual may notify the Department of the individual's election to resume his or her eligibility for benefits for the remainder of the 26 weeks if the individual is otherwise eligible. Requires the Department to adopt rules and to post a notice on its website that explains the right to make an election. Provides that an election to interrupt benefits may not be made on or after January 1, 2023. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning employment.

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

Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by changing Section 607 as follows:

(820 ILCS 405/607) (from Ch. 48, par. 437)

Sec. 607. Ineligibility after 26 weeks - Work requirement for second benefit year.

A. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits whenever, in any period commencing with a compensable week of unemployment, he has been allowed his full weekly benefit amount for each of twenty-six weeks, until he has earned wages equal to at least three times his current weekly benefit amount in bona fide work, reduced by an amount equal to his current weekly benefit amount for each week, if any, in which he was not unemployed within such period, whereupon he shall again, if otherwise eligible, be permitted to receive his full weekly benefit amount for twenty-six weeks.

If, however, a compensable week of unemployment is followed by three or more weeks (not necessarily consecutive) in each of which he earned wages for bona fide work equal to at least his then current weekly benefit amount, such period shall be deemed to commence immediately after the last week in which he earned such wages.

This subsection is applicable only to weeks in benefit years which begin prior to January 1, 1972.

A-1. Notwithstanding subsection A, an individual who is receiving benefits may notify the Department that the individual elects to interrupt the individual's eligibility period so that the individual may engage in temporary employment. An individual who makes such an election is ineligible for benefits during the period of interruption. When the temporary employment ends, the individual may notify the Department of the individual's election to resume the individual's eligibility for benefits for the remainder of the 26 weeks if the individual is otherwise eligible. The Department shall adopt rules to implement this subsection A-1. The Department shall post a notice on its website that explains the right to make an election under this subsection A-1. An election under this subsection A-1 to interrupt benefits may not be made on or after January 1, 2023.

B. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits for any week in a benefit year which begins on or after January 1, 1972, unless, subsequent to the beginning of his immediately preceding benefit year with respect to which benefits were paid to him, he performed bona fide work and earned remuneration for such work equal to at least 3 times his current weekly benefit amount.

(Source: P.A. 77-1443.)

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