HB4733 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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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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 1502.3 as follows:

(820 ILCS 405/1502.3)

Sec. 1502.3. Benefit charges; federal disasters; accidents. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer located in an Illinois county that has, during 1993, been declared a federal disaster area due to flooding shall be chargeable for any benefit charges which result from the payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of unemployment during the period of the federal disaster, but only to the extent that the employer can show that the individual's unemployment was a direct result of the flooding.

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, with respect to any week beginning on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly, 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.

(Source: P.A. 88-518.)