Delaware House Bill 176 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)
Status: Passed on August 9 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-08-09 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This bill would extend various deadlines in the Unemployment Code. The intent is to provide claimants and employers additional time to receive and prepare a response or appeal of benefit determinations and other important documents that require a response, in an effort to reduce the incidents of late filed appeals and missed deadlines. This would benefit claimants and employers by providing more time, while also reducing the administrative burden to the Division of Unemployment Insurance of responding to late appeals and late filed documents. This bill also makes conforming changes to additional sections of the Unemployment Code that provide for delivery by mail or other delivery methods to provide flexibility to the Division and Board if they decide to send notices and other documents by email or other delivery methods to reduce mailing expenses and increase efficiency. Finally, this bill confirms Superior Court precedent that Code references to days mean calendar days unless otherwise specified.

An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Unemployment Compensation Deadlines.

Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Kimberly Williams [D]	Rep. Sherry Dorsey Walker [D]	Sen. Jack Walsh [D]
Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Ruth Briggs King [R]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Rep. Eric Morrison [D]
Sen. Kyle Gay [D]	Sen. Kyra Hoffner [D]	Sen. Spiros Mantzavinos [D]	Sen. David Wilson [R]

2023-06-29 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-06-21 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-08-09		Signed by Governor
2023-06-29		Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES
2023-06-28		Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits
2023-06-21		Assigned to Labor Committee in Senate
2023-06-21		Passed By House. Votes: 39 YES 2 ABSENT
2023-06-06		Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 7 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2023-06-01		Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140485
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140485&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB176
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54770
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54995