Delaware House Bill 236

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on July 25 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-07-25 - Signed by Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act will continue for calendar year 2024 the temporary relief provided in calendar year 2023 to employers who pay unemployment tax assessments. It will continue to reduce new employer tax rates, hold constant overall employer tax rates from last calendar year, and reduce the maximum earned rate. This Act will also continue the temporary simplification of the tax rate schedules that are used to calculate unemployment assessments paid by employers. The Governors agreement to use federal pandemic funds to restore the pandemic-depleted Unemployment Trust Fund made the Unemployment Trust Fund sufficiently solvent and is allowing the Department to implement unemployment tax relief measures to Delaware employers for an additional one-year period for calendar year 2024. The Department estimates that these unemployment tax assessment changes will reduce the tax obligation of employers an estimated $50 million compared to the tax rates absent the temporary relief.

An Act To Amend Title 19 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Employer Assessments.

Rep. Edward Osienski [D]

Sen. Jack Walsh [D]

2023-06-29 - Senate - Senate Third Reading (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-06-21 - House - House Third Reading (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-07-25		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: 40 YES 1 ABSENT
2023-06-20		Reported Out of Committee (Labor) in House with 1 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits
2023-06-16		Introduced and Assigned to Labor Committee in House

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Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54762
Roll Call	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/RollCall/GetRollCallVoteByRollCallId#54997