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Public Act 0912 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
Public Act 099-0912
 
SB1941 EnrolledLRB099 08774 JLS 28943 b

    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
adding Section 408.5 as follows:
 
    (820 ILCS 405/408.5 new)
    Sec. 408.5. Additional benefits.
    A. Additional benefits shall be available:
        1. Only with respect to benefit years beginning on or
    after April 1, 2015 and prior to the effective date of this
    amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly; and
        2. To an otherwise eligible individual: (a) who was
    certified as eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
    under the federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, on or
    after January 1, 2015; (b) who has not received the maximum
    amount of trade readjustment allowances payable to him or
    her pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of Section
    233 of the federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, as a
    result of the certification referenced in item (a) of this
    paragraph 2; and (c) whose total or partial unemployment is
    attributable to a layoff from a steel manufacturer.
    B. An individual shall be eligible to receive additional
benefits pursuant to this Section for a week if he or she: (1)
has met the requirements of Section 500E of this Act; (2) is an
exhaustee; and (3) except when the result would be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Section, has satisfied the
requirements of this Act for the receipt of regular benefits as
that term is defined in Section 409 of this Act.
    C. For the purposes of this Section, an individual is an
exhaustee with respect to a week if:
        1. Prior to such week: (a) he or she has received, with
    respect to his or her current benefit year that includes
    such week, the maximum total amount of benefits to which he
    or she was entitled under the provisions of Section 403B,
    and all of the regular benefits (including dependents'
    allowances) to which he or she had entitlement (if any) on
    the basis of wages or employment under any other State
    unemployment compensation law; or (b) he or she has
    received all the regular benefits available to him or her
    with respect to his or her current benefit year that
    includes such week, under this Act and under any other
    State unemployment compensation law, after a cancellation
    of some or all of his or her wage credits or the partial or
    total reduction of his or her regular benefit rights; or
    (c) his or her benefit year terminated, and he or she
    cannot meet the qualifying wage requirements of Section
    500E of this Act or the qualifying wage or employment
    requirements of any other State unemployment compensation
    law to establish a new benefit year which would include
    such week or, having established a new benefit year that
    includes such week, he or she is ineligible for regular
    benefits by reason of Section 607 of this Act or a like
    provision of any other State unemployment compensation
    law; and
        2. For such week: (a) he or she has no right to
    benefits or allowances, as the case may be, under the
    Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the federal Trade Act
    of 1974, as amended, or such other federal laws as are
    specified in regulations of the United States Secretary of
    Labor or other appropriate federal agency; and (b) he or
    she has not received and is not seeking benefits under the
    unemployment compensation law of Canada, except that if he
    or she is seeking such benefits and the appropriate agency
    finally determines that he or she is not entitled to
    benefits under such law, this clause shall not apply; and
        3. The week for which additional benefits are being
    claimed is not later than seventy-eight weeks after the end
    of the individual's benefit year for which benefits can be
    claimed under this Section.
    For the purposes of clauses (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of
this subsection, an individual shall be deemed to have
received, with respect to his or her current benefit year, the
maximum total amount of benefits to which he or she was
entitled or all of the regular benefits to which he or she had
entitlement, or all of the regular benefits available to him or
her, as the case may be, even though: (a) as a result of a
pending reconsideration or appeal with respect to the "finding"
defined in Section 701, or of a pending appeal with respect to
wages or employment or both under any other State unemployment
compensation law, he or she may subsequently be determined to
be entitled to more regular benefits; or (b) by reason of a
seasonality provision in a State unemployment compensation law
which establishes the weeks of the year for which regular
benefits may be paid to individuals on the basis of wages in
seasonal employment he or she may be entitled to regular
benefits for future weeks but such benefits are not payable
with respect to the week for which he or she is claiming
additional benefits, provided that he or she is otherwise an
exhaustee under the provisions of this subsection with respect
to his or her rights to regular benefits, under such
seasonality provision, during the portion of the year in which
that week occurs; or (c) having established a benefit year, no
regular benefits are payable to him or her with respect to such
year because his or her wage credits were cancelled or his or
her rights to regular benefits were totally reduced by reason
of the application of a disqualification provision of a State
unemployment compensation law.
    An individual shall not cease to be an exhaustee with
respect to any week solely because he or she meets the
qualifying wage requirements of Section 500E for a part of such
week.
    D. The provisions of Section 607 and the waiting period
requirements of Section 500D shall not be applicable to any
week with respect to which benefits are otherwise payable under
this Section.
    E. With respect to any week payable under this Section, an
exhaustee's "weekly additional benefit amount" shall be the
same as his or her weekly benefit amount during his or her
benefit year which includes such week or, if such week is not
in a benefit year, during his or her applicable benefit year,
as defined in regulations issued by the United States Secretary
of Labor or other appropriate federal agency. If the exhaustee
had more than one weekly benefit amount during his or her
benefit year, his or her weekly additional benefit amount with
respect to such week shall be the latest of such weekly benefit
amounts.
    F. An eligible exhaustee shall be entitled to a maximum
total amount of additional benefits equal to the maximum total
amount of benefits to which he or she was entitled under
Section 403B, plus dependents' allowances, during his or her
applicable benefit year, minus the sum of any trade
readjustment allowances he or she has received as a result of
the certification referenced in item (a) of paragraph 2 of
subsection A.
    G. 1. A claims adjudicator shall examine the first claim
filed by an individual who meets the requirements of subsection
A and, on the basis of the information in his or her
possession, shall make an "additional benefits finding". Such
finding shall state whether or not the individual has met the
requirement of subsection E of Section 500 of this Act, is an
exhaustee and, if so, his or her weekly additional benefit
amount and the maximum total amount of additional benefits to
which he or she is entitled. The claims adjudicator shall
promptly notify the individual of his or her "additional
benefits finding", and shall promptly notify the individual's
most recent employing unit and the individual's last employer
(referred to in Section 1502.1) that the individual has filed a
claim for additional benefits. The claims adjudicator may
reconsider his or her "additional benefits finding" at any time
within 2 years after the close of the individual's applicable
benefit year, and shall promptly notify the individual of such
reconsidered finding. All of the provisions of this Act
applicable to reviews from findings or reconsidered findings
made pursuant to Sections 701 and 703 which are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this subsection shall be
applicable to reviews from additional benefits findings and
reconsidered additional benefits findings.
    2. If, pursuant to the reconsideration or appeal with
respect to a "finding", referred to in subsection C, an
exhaustee is found to be entitled to more regular benefits and,
by reason thereof, is entitled to more additional benefits, the
claims adjudicator shall make a reconsidered additional
benefits finding and shall promptly notify the exhaustee
thereof.
    H. Benefits payable pursuant to this Section shall be paid
from the unemployment trust fund.
    I. No employer shall be chargeable for the additional
benefits paid under this Section.
    J. To ensure full compliance and coordination with all
applicable federal laws, including, but not limited to, the
federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Federal Unemployment
Tax Act, and the Social Security Act, the Director shall take
any action or issue any regulations necessary in the
administration of this Section to ensure that its provisions
are so interpreted and applied as to meet the requirements of
such federal Act as interpreted by the United States Secretary
of Labor or other appropriate Federal agency.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 12/19/2016