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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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1502.3 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 405/1502.3)
7     Sec. 1502.3. Benefit charges; federal disasters.
8 Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer
9 located in an Illinois county that has, during 1993, been
10 declared a federal disaster area due to flooding shall be
11 chargeable for any benefit charges which result from the
12 payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of
13 unemployment during the period of the federal disaster, but
14 only to the extent that the employer can show that the
15 individual's unemployment was a direct result of the federal
16 disaster flooding.
17 (Source: P.A. 88-518.)