Bill Text: NH HB1597 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-22 - Refer for Interim Study: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/22/2024 House Journal 6 P. 13 [HB1597 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1597-Introduced.html
HB 1597-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2308
12/05
HOUSE BILL 1597-FN
AN ACT relative to the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount.
SPONSORS: Rep. J. Sullivan, Graf. 2; Rep. Rochefort, Graf. 1; Rep. Massimilla, Graf. 1; Rep. Wheeler, Hills. 33; Rep. Post, Hills. 42
COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill modifies the formula to calculate unemployment benefits.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2308
12/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Total and Partial Unemployment. Amend RSA 282-A:14, III(a) to read as follows:
III.(a) For the purposes of paragraphs I and II, the term "wages" shall have the same meaning as in RSA 282-A:15 [include compensation for temporary partial disability under the workers' compensation law of any state or under a similar law of the United States, payments in lieu of notice, a sickness or separation allowance, payment of accrued leave or sums of whatever type or nature, except those specifically excluded elsewhere in this subparagraph, payments upon discharge from military service from either the state or federal government, or both, and earnings from self-employment]. "Wages" shall not mean and shall not include payments from a supplemental unemployment plan as defined in RSA 282-A:3-a or any portion of a lump sum payment for workers' compensation made pursuant to RSA 281-A:37. Wages [or earnings or both] shall be deemed to have been received for such week or weeks as the commissioner may find can be reasonably said to apply. The application of longevity, stay, retention, attendance, and similar payments commencing with a period of one or more weeks of partial or total unemployment shall be presumed reasonable if such payment was received 90 or fewer days prior to the commencement of such period. An individual's maximum weekly benefit amount shall be reduced by [all wages and earnings in excess of 30 percent, rounded to the nearest dollar, of the individual's weekly benefit amount.] 40 percent of earned wages, rounded to the nearest dollar, of the individual's weekly benefit amount. Wages shall not include any payment made to an individual by reason of the individual's permanent separation from employment, for reasons other than retirement, under a prior existing plan maintained by employer contributions vested in the individual before the date of separation. Wages shall not include any payment made to an individual by reason of the individual's permanent separation from employment, for reasons other than retirement, under a prior existing plan maintained by employer contributions vested in the individual before the date of separation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
24-2308
12/11/23
HB 1597-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to the maximum weekly unemployment benefit amount.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill, as introduced, as it is awaiting information from the Department of Employment Security. The Department of Employment Security was initially contacted on 11/27/23 for a fiscal note worksheet. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Employment Security
