Bill Text: HI HB169 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Employment Security
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [HB169 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB169-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to employment security.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 383, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§383- Optional total unemployment rate trigger; extended benefits. (a) There shall be a "state 'on' indicator" for the State with respect to weeks of unemployment until the week ending four weeks prior to the last week of unemployment for which one hundred per cent federal sharing is available under federal law, under the following conditions:
(1) The average rate of total unemployment (seasonally adjusted), as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor, for the period consisting of the most recent three months for which data for all states are published before the close of such week equals or exceeds:
(A) Six and one-half per cent, for an extended benefit period of thirteen weeks; or
(B) Eight per cent, for an extended benefit period of twenty weeks;
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(2) The average rate of total unemployment in this State (seasonally adjusted), as determined by the United States Secretary of Labor, for the three-month period referred to in paragraph (1) equals or exceeds one hundred ten per cent of such average for either or both of the corresponding three month periods ending in the preceding two calendar years.
(b) There shall be a "state 'off' indicator" for this State for a week if, for the period consisting of such week and the immediately preceding twelve weeks, subsection (a) was not satisfied."
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $145,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2011-2012 for an automated extended benefit claims system.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this Act. SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2012.
Report Title:
Employment Security
Description:
Enacts the optional total unemployment rate trigger. Appropriates funds for an automated extended benefit claims system. Effective January 1, 2012. (HB169 HD1)
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