Bill Text: IL HB6594 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. In a provision concerning the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits, provides that with respect to any benefit year beginning on or after December 1, 2015 and prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act, any otherwise eligible individual whose total or partial unemployment is attributable to his or her employer's temporary idling of a steelmaking facility shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 52 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-03 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB6594 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB6594-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB6594 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman - Daniel V. Beiser SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 405/403 from Ch. 48, par. 403
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. In a provision concerning the maximum total amount of unemployment benefits, provides that with respect to any benefit year beginning on or after December 1, 2015 and prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act, any otherwise eligible individual whose total or partial unemployment is attributable to his or her employer's temporary idling of a steelmaking facility shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 52 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. Effective immediately.
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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
changing Section 403 as follows:
(820 ILCS 405/403) (from Ch. 48, par. 403)
Sec. 403. Maximum total amount of benefits.
A. With respect to any benefit year beginning prior to
September 30, 1979, any otherwise eligible individual shall be
entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount
of benefits as shall be determined in the manner set forth in
this Act as amended and in effect on November 9, 1977.
B. With respect to any benefit year beginning on or after
September 30, 1979, except as otherwise provided in this
Section, any otherwise eligible individual shall be entitled,
during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount of benefits
equal to 26 times his or her weekly benefit amount plus
dependents' allowances, or to the total wages for insured work
paid to such individual during the individual's base period,
whichever amount is smaller. With respect to any benefit year
beginning in calendar year 2012, any otherwise eligible
individual shall be entitled, during such benefit year, to a
maximum total amount of benefits equal to 25 times his or her

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weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances, or to the
total wages for insured work paid to such individual during the
individual's base period, whichever amount is smaller. If the
maximum amount includable as "wages" pursuant to Section 235 is
$13,560 with respect to calendar year 2013, then, with respect
to any benefit year beginning after March 31, 2013 and before
April 1, 2014, any otherwise eligible individual shall be
entitled, during such benefit year, to a maximum total amount
of benefits equal to 25 times his or her weekly benefit amount
plus dependents allowances, or to the total wages for insured
work paid to such individual during the individual's base
period, whichever amount is smaller. With respect to any
benefit year beginning in calendar year 2018, any otherwise
eligible individual shall be entitled, during such benefit
year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 24 times
his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances,
or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual
during the individual's base period, whichever amount is
smaller.
C. With respect to any benefit year beginning on or after
December 1, 2015 and prior to the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, any otherwise
eligible individual whose total or partial unemployment is
attributable to his or her employer's temporary idling of a
steelmaking facility shall be entitled, during such benefit
year, to a maximum total amount of benefits equal to 52 times

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his or her weekly benefit amount plus dependents' allowances,
or to the total wages for insured work paid to such individual
during the individual's base period, whichever amount is
smaller.
(Source: P.A. 99-488, eff. 12-4-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.