Unemployment insurance coverage-period and reporting.

25LSO-0704
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0704
ENGROSSED
3.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0175

Unemployment insurance coverage-period and reporting.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Kolb, Ide, McKeown and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Bear and Heiner

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 effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 27
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102(a)(v), 27
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304, 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
reemployment
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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601.

Reemployment insurance commission created; composition; terms; vacancies; salary; chairman; quorum; removal; office; seal.

(a)

The
unemployment
reemployment
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
reemployment
insurance commission information and other available statistics.

Section 2
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There is appropriated eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00) from the general fund to the Wyoming department of workforce services for purposes of updating and administering the Wyoming unemployment insurance system. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this section and ending June 30, 2026. 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, 2026.

Section 3.

This act shall apply to all unemployment claims filed on and after January 4, 2026.

Section 4
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(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective January 4, 2026
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(b)

Sections 2 and 4 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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