Bill Text: IL SB3986 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that no employer shall be chargeable for any benefit charges or amounts due in lieu of contributions that result from the payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of unemployment, which unemployment is directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, and only to the extent that the employer can show that the individual's unemployment for each such week was directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3986 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3986-Introduced.html


101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3986

Introduced 5/19/2020, by Sen. Chapin Rose

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
820 ILCS 405/1502.4 new

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that no employer shall be chargeable for any benefit charges or amounts due in lieu of contributions that result from the payment of benefits to any individual for any weeks of unemployment, which unemployment is directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, and only to the extent that the employer can show that the individual's unemployment for each such week was directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19. Effective immediately.
LRB101 21156 JLS 71696 b

A BILL FOR

SB3986LRB101 21156 JLS 71696 b
1 AN ACT concerning employment.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
5adding Section 1502.4 as follows:
6 (820 ILCS 405/1502.4 new)
7 Sec. 1502.4. Benefit charges; COVID-19. Notwithstanding
8the provisions of Section 1502.1, no employer shall be
9chargeable for any benefit charges or amounts due in lieu of
10contributions that result from the payment of benefits to any
11individual for any weeks of unemployment, which unemployment is
12directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, and only to
13the extent that the employer can show that the individual's
14unemployment for each such week was directly or indirectly
15attributable to COVID-19.
16 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17becoming law.
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