HB3952 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3952

Introduced 2/26/2009, by Rep. Brandon W. Phelps

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

820 ILCS 405/1502.3

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that no employer located in an Illinois county that has, during 2008, 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. Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

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. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer located in an Illinois county that has, during 1993 or 2008, 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.

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

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.