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Senate
File
157
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Introduced
SENATE
FILE
157
BY
DOTZLER
,
WEINER
,
QUIRMBACH
,
WINCKLER
,
BENNETT
,
BLAKE
,
BISIGNANO
,
TOWNSEND
,
STAED
,
PETERSEN
,
DONAHUE
,
CELSI
,
KNOX
,
TRONE
GARRIOTT
,
and
WAHLS
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
maximum
amount
of
unemployment
benefits
1
payable
during
a
benefit
year.
2
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
96.3,
subsection
5,
paragraph
a,
Code
1
2025,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
a.
Duration
of
benefits.
The
maximum
total
amount
of
3
benefits
payable
to
an
eligible
individual
during
a
benefit
4
year
shall
not
exceed
the
total
of
the
wage
credits
accrued
to
5
the
individual’s
account
during
the
individual’s
base
period,
6
or
sixteen
twenty-six
times
the
individual’s
weekly
benefit
7
amount,
whichever
is
the
lesser.
The
director
shall
maintain
8
a
separate
account
for
each
individual
who
earns
wages
in
9
insured
work.
The
director
shall
compute
wage
credits
for
10
each
individual
by
crediting
the
individual’s
account
with
11
one-third
of
the
wages
for
insured
work
paid
to
the
individual
12
during
the
individual’s
base
period.
However,
the
director
13
shall
recompute
wage
credits
for
an
individual
who
is
laid
14
off
due
to
the
individual’s
employer
going
out
of
business
at
15
the
factory,
establishment,
or
other
premises
at
which
the
16
individual
was
last
employed,
by
crediting
the
individual’s
17
account
with
one-half,
instead
of
one-third,
of
the
wages
for
18
insured
work
paid
to
the
individual
during
the
individual’s
19
base
period.
Benefits
paid
to
an
eligible
individual
shall
20
be
charged
against
the
base
period
wage
credits
in
the
21
individual’s
account
which
have
not
been
previously
charged,
22
in
the
inverse
chronological
order
as
the
wages
on
which
the
23
wage
credits
are
based
were
paid.
However
if
the
state
“off”
24
indicator
is
in
effect
and
if
the
individual
is
laid
off
due
to
25
the
individual’s
employer
going
out
of
business
at
the
factory,
26
establishment,
or
other
premises
at
which
the
individual
was
27
last
employed,
the
maximum
benefits
payable
shall
be
extended
28
to
twenty-six
times
the
individual’s
weekly
benefit
amount,
29
but
not
to
exceed
the
total
of
the
wage
credits
accrued
to
the
30
individual’s
account.
31
EXPLANATION
32
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
33
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
34
This
bill
provides
that
the
maximum
total
amount
of
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unemployment
benefits
payable
to
an
eligible
individual
during
1
a
benefit
year
shall
not
exceed
26
times
the
individual’s
2
weekly
benefit
amount,
rather
than
16
times
the
weekly
benefit
3
amount
as
provided
under
current
law.
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