Sen. Carol Ronen

Filed: 5/24/2004

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 812

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 812 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5 changing Section 235 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 405/235)  (from Ch. 48, par. 345)
7     Sec. 235. The term "wages" does not include:
8     A. That part of the remuneration which, after remuneration
9 equal to $6,000 with respect to employment has been paid to an
10 individual by an employer during any calendar year after 1977
11 and before 1980, is paid to such individual by such employer
12 during such calendar year; and that part of the remuneration
13 which, after remuneration equal to $6,500 with respect to
14 employment has been paid to an individual by an employer during
15 each calendar year 1980 and 1981, is paid to such individual by
16 such employer during that calendar year; and that part of the
17 remuneration which, after remuneration equal to $7,000 with
18 respect to employment has been paid to an individual by an
19 employer during the calendar year 1982 is paid to such
20 individual by such employer during that calendar year.
21     With respect to the first calendar quarter of 1983, the
22 term "wages" shall include only the remuneration paid to an
23 individual by an employer during such quarter with respect to
24 employment which does not exceed $7,000. With respect to the

 

 

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1 three calendar quarters, beginning April 1, 1983, the term
2 "wages" shall include only the remuneration paid to an
3 individual by an employer during such period with respect to
4 employment which when added to the "wages" (as defined in the
5 preceding sentence) paid to such individual by such employer
6 during the first calendar quarter of 1983, does not exceed
7 $8,000.
8     With respect to the calendar year 1984, the term "wages"
9 shall include only the remuneration paid to an individual by an
10 employer during that period with respect to employment which
11 does not exceed $8,000; with respect to calendar years 1985,
12 1986 and 1987, the term "wages" shall include only the
13 remuneration paid to such individual by such employer during
14 that calendar year with respect to employment which does not
15 exceed $8,500.
16     With respect to the calendar years 1988 through 2003 and
17 calendar year 2005 and each calendar year thereafter, the term
18 "wages" shall include only the remuneration paid to an
19 individual by an employer during that period with respect to
20 employment which does not exceed $9,000.
21     With respect to the calendar year 2004, the term "wages"
22 shall include only the remuneration paid to an individual by an
23 employer during that period with respect to employment which
24 does not exceed $9,800. With respect to the calendar years 2005
25 through 2009, the term "wages" shall include only the
26 remuneration paid to an individual by an employer during that
27 period with respect to employment which does not exceed the
28 following amounts: $10,500 with respect to the calendar year
29 2005; $11,000 with respect to the calendar year 2006; $11,500
30 with respect to the calendar year 2007; $12,000 with respect to
31 the calendar year 2008; and $12,300 with respect to the
32 calendar year 2009.
33     With respect to the calendar year 2010 and each calendar
34 year thereafter, the term "wages" shall include only the

 

 

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1 remuneration paid to an individual by an employer during that
2 period with respect to employment which does not exceed the sum
3 of the wage base adjustment applicable to that year pursuant to
4 Section 1400.1, plus the maximum amount includable as "wages"
5 pursuant to this subsection with respect to the immediately
6 preceding calendar year. Notwithstanding any provision to the
7 contrary, the maximum amount includable as "wages" pursuant to
8 this Section shall not be less than $12,300 or greater than
9 $12,960 with respect to any calendar year after calendar year
10 2009.
11     The remuneration paid to an individual by an employer with
12 respect to employment in another State or States, upon which
13 contributions were required of such employer under an
14 unemployment compensation law of such other State or States,
15 shall be included as a part of the remuneration herein referred
16 to. For the purposes of this subsection, any employing unit
17 which succeeds to the organization, trade, or business, or to
18 substantially all of the assets of another employing unit, or
19 to the organization, trade, or business, or to substantially
20 all of the assets of a distinct severable portion of another
21 employing unit, shall be treated as a single unit with its
22 predecessor for the calendar year in which such succession
23 occurs, and any employing unit which is owned or controlled by
24 the same interests which own or control another employing unit
25 shall be treated as a single unit with the unit so owned or
26 controlled by such interests for any calendar year throughout
27 which such ownership or control exists. This subsection applies
28 only to Sections 1400, 1405A, and 1500.
29     B. The amount of any payment (including any amount paid by
30 an employer for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to
31 provide for any such payment), made to, or on behalf of, an
32 individual or any of his dependents under a plan or system
33 established by an employer which makes provision generally for
34 individuals performing services for him (or for such

 

 

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1 individuals generally and their dependents) or for a class or
2 classes of such individuals (or for a class or classes of such
3 individuals and their dependents), on account of (1) sickness
4 or accident disability (except those sickness or accident
5 disability payments which would be includable as "wages" in
6 Section 3306(b)(2)(A) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of
7 1954, in effect on January 1, 1985, such includable payments to
8 be attributable in such manner as provided by Section 3306(b)
9 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, in effect on
10 January 1, 1985), or (2) medical or hospitalization expenses in
11 connection with sickness or accident disability, or (3) death.
12     C. Any payment made to, or on behalf of, an employee or his
13 beneficiary which would be excluded from "wages" by
14 subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F) or (G), of Section
15 3306(b)(5) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954, in
16 effect on January 1, 1985.
17     D. The amount of any payment on account of sickness or
18 accident disability, or medical or hospitalization expenses in
19 connection with sickness or accident disability, made by an
20 employer to, or on behalf of, an individual performing services
21 for him after the expiration of six calendar months following
22 the last calendar month in which the individual performed
23 services for such employer.
24     E. Remuneration paid in any medium other than cash by an
25 employing unit to an individual for service in agricultural
26 labor as defined in Section 214.
27     F. The amount of any supplemental payment made by an
28 employer to an individual performing services for him, other
29 than remuneration for services performed, under a shared work
30 plan approved by the Director pursuant to Section 407.1.
31 (Source: P.A. 93-634, eff. 1-1-04.)
 
32     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
33 becoming law.".