95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4733

 

Introduced , by Rep. John E. Bradley

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 405/1502.3

    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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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 accidents. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1,
9 no employer located in an Illinois county that has, during
10 1993, been declared a federal disaster area due to flooding
11 shall be chargeable for any benefit charges which result from
12 the 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 flooding.
16     Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, with
17 respect to any week beginning on or after the effective date of
18 this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, an employer
19 shall not be chargeable for any benefit charges that result
20 from the payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of
21 unemployment during a closure or reduction in operations at the
22 employer's building, work site, or other facility that is
23 directly attributable to a natural disaster or an accident such

 

 

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