House File 542 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON LABOR (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 144) A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to eligibility requirements for individuals 2 claiming unemployment insurance benefits in consecutive 3 benefit years and including effective date provisions. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1628HV (2) 87 je/rj PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 96.4, subsection 4, paragraph c, Code 1 2 2017, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 c. If the individual has drawn benefits in any benefit 1 4 year, the individual must during or subsequent to that year, 1 5 work in and be paid wages for insured work totaling at least 1 6two hundred fifty dollarseight times the individual's weekly 1 7 benefit amount, as a condition to receive benefits in the next 1 8 benefit year. 1 9 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect July 2, 2017. 1 10 EXPLANATION 1 11 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 12 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 13 This bill increases the amount of wages an individual who 1 14 has drawn unemployment benefits in a benefit year must be paid 1 15 for insured work during or subsequent to that year in order to 1 16 be eligible to receive benefits in the next benefit year. The 1 17 amount is increased from $250 to eight times the individual's 1 18 weekly benefit amount. 1 19 The bill takes effect July 2, 2017. LSB 1628HV (2) 87 je/rj