Bill Text: IA SF358 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable during a benefit year to an individual laid off due to an employer going out of business.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - Subcommittee: Driscoll, Dotzler, and Taylor. S.J. 315. [SF358 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2025-SF358-Introduced.html
Senate
File
358
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Introduced
SENATE
FILE
358
BY
DOTZLER
,
DONAHUE
,
WINCKLER
,
PETERSEN
,
STAED
,
BLAKE
,
TRONE
GARRIOTT
,
BENNETT
,
and
ZIMMER
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
maximum
amount
of
unemployment
benefits
1
payable
during
a
benefit
year
to
an
individual
laid
off
due
2
to
an
employer
going
out
of
business.
3
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
5
to
the
individual’s
account
during
the
individual’s
base
6
period,
or
sixteen
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
thirty-nine
times
the
individual’s
weekly
benefit
29
amount,
but
not
to
exceed
the
total
of
the
wage
credits
accrued
30
to
the
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
during
a
benefit
year
to
an
1
eligible
individual
laid
off
due
to
the
individual’s
employer
2
going
out
of
business
at
the
factory,
establishment,
or
other
3
premises
at
which
the
individual
was
last
employed
shall
not
4
exceed
39
times
the
individual’s
weekly
benefit
amount,
rather
5
than
26
times
the
weekly
benefit
amount
as
provided
under
6
current
law.
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