Senate Sponsors: RADOGNO. House Sponsors: BEAUBIEN Short description: UNEMPLOYMENT INS-TRAINING COUR Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that the Director of Employment Security has authority to issue a blanket approval of qualified job training programs implemented pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (rather than the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and the Job Training Partnership Act). HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Adds reference to: 820 ILCS 405/703 from Ch. 48, par. 453 Further amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that the claims adjudicator may reconsider his or her findings as to the payment of benefits within 3 years after the last day of the week if the issue is whether or not, by reason of a back pay award made by any governmental agency or pursuant to arbitration proceedings, or by reason of a payment of wages wrongfully withheld by an employing unit, an individual has received wages for a week with respect to which he or she has received benefits. Provides that the claims adjudicator may reconsider his or her findings within 3 years (rather than 2 years) if the issue is whether or not the claimant misstated his or her earnings for the week. FISCAL NOTE, H-AM 1 (Department of Employment Security) Up to $1,885,000 of potential administrative cost is avoided by updating the training program name reference. Under H-am 1, the Department would have another year to recover previously paid unemployment insurance benefits that are now covered under the backpay award. There is no additional administrative cost incurred by the extension of the time period for reconsidera- tion due to the limited scope of the amendment. There would be a net positive gain to the State's Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund account due to the recovery of the benefits that were overpaid due to a backpay award. This amount is not possible to quantify in that the number of backpay awards im- pacting unemployment insurance claims is stochastic and the number of those awards extending beyond two years beyond the last date of unemployment insurance claim but no longer than three years in simply not known. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0396 Last action date: AUG-16-2001 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status