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23LSO-0608
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0608
ENGROSSED
3.0
SENATE FILE NO. SF0138
Unemployment insurance coverage period and reporting.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Kolb, Biteman, Driskill, Ide and Kinskey and Representative(s) Burkhart, Heiner, Jennings, Larsen, L, Neiman and Stith
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to labor and employment; reducing the maximum length of unemployment benefits; renaming the unemployment insurance commission; specifying applicability; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1.
W.S. 27
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102(a)(v), 27
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304, 27
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316(c)(ii), 27
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601(a) and 27
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14
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802(b) are amended to read:
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3
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102.
Definitions generally.
(a)
Except as otherwise provided, as used in this act:
(v)
"Commission" means the
unemployment
re
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employment
insurance commission of Wyoming within the department of workforce services;
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3
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304.
Maximum payment.
Except as provided by W.S. 27
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316, the maximum amount of benefits payable to any eligible individual in a benefit year shall not exceed
twenty
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six (26)
twenty (20)
times his weekly benefit or thirty percent (30%) of his wages payable for insured work in his base period, whichever is less. This amount shall be computed to the next higher multiple of his weekly benefit.
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3
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316.
Applicability of regular claim and payment provisions to extended benefits; determination of amount.
(c)
An eligible individual's total extended benefit amount for his applicable benefit year is the lesser of:
(ii)
Thirteen (13)
Six and one
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half (6.5)
times his weekly benefit amount under this article for a week of total unemployment in the applicable benefit year.
A reduction in an eligible claimant's weekly and potential maximum extended benefit amount, resulting from the application of paragraph (b)(i) of this section, will not increase the number of weeks of extended benefit entitlement beyond that specified in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection.
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601.
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employment insurance commission created; composition; terms; vacancies; salary; chairman; quorum; removal; office; seal.
(a)
The
unemployment
re
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employment
insurance commission of Wyoming is created within the department of workforce services and shall consist of three (3) members serving a term of six (6) years each. Appointments, vacancies and expiration of terms shall be in accordance with W.S. 28
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101 through 28
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103. A member shall not hold any state office or serve as an officer or on a committee of any political organization during the term of membership. No more than seventy
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five percent (75%) of the members shall be of the same political party.
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802.
Rulemaking power; fees; state's average wages; vocational rehabilitation; contracts with clerks of district court.
(b)
Before the last day of each quarter in each year, the department shall estimate the average monthly and weekly wage for the twelve (12) months preceding the quarter, based on
unemployment
re
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employment
insurance commission information and other available statistics.
Section 2.
This act shall only apply to unemployment claims filed on or after January 1, 2024.
Section 3.
There is appropriated eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00) from the general fund to the Wyoming department of workforce services for the purposes of updating and administering the Wyoming unemployment insurance system. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2024. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2024. It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation not be included in the department of workforce service's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.
Section 3
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This act is effective January 1, 2024
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