Bill Text: IN SB0273 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Unemployment administrative law judges.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor [SB0273 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SB0273-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 22-4.
Synopsis: Unemployment administrative law judges. Requires that an
administrative law judge employed by the department of workforce
development to hear unemployment claims must be an attorney
admitted to the practice of law before the Indiana Supreme Court.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
January 11, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Pensions and Labor.
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(b) The department shall provide at least annually to all administrative law judges, review board members, and other individuals who adjudicate claims training concerning:
(1) unemployment compensation law;
(2) rules for the conduct of hearings and appeals; and
(3) rules of conduct for administrative law judges, review board members, and other individuals who adjudicate claims during a
hearing or other adjudicative process.
(c) The department regularly shall monitor the hearings and
decisions of its administrative law judges, review board members, and
other individuals who adjudicate claims to ensure that the hearings and
decisions strictly comply with the law and the rules described in
subsection (b).
(d) An individual who does not strictly comply with the law and the
rules described in subsection (b), including the rules of conduct for
administrative law judges, review board members, and other
individuals who adjudicate claims during a hearing or other
adjudicative process, is subject to disciplinary action by the
department, up to and including suspension from or termination of
employment.
(1) the assessment of contributions, penalties, and interest;
(2) which accounts, if any, benefits paid, or finally ordered to be paid, should be charged;
(3) successorships, and related matters arising therefrom, including but not limited to:
(A) the transfer of accounts;
(B) the determination of rates of contribution; and
(C) determinations under IC 22-4-11.5; and
(4) claims for refunds of contributions, skills 2016 training assessments, or adjustments thereon in connection with subsequent contribution payments and skills 2016 training assessments;
for which an employing unit has timely filed a protest under section 4 of this chapter.
(b) After June 30, 2010, an individual employed as an administrative law judge to hear the matters described in subsection (a) must be an attorney admitted to the practice of law before the Indiana Supreme Court.
