West Virginia Senate Bill 310 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-10 - To Finance
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to permit certain part-time employees to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. The bill permits employees who have left employment due to being a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. The bill permits employees who have left employment to care for disabled or ill immediate family members to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits. The bill also permits employees who have left employment due to the transfer or relocation of a spouse to be eligible for unemployment compensation benefits.

Making certain employees eligible for unemployment compensation

Sen. Jeffrey Kessler [D]

Sen. Orphy Klempa [D]

Sen. John Unger [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-10		To Finance
2011-02-10		Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance
2011-01-27		To Labor
2011-01-27		Introduced in Senate
2011-01-26		To Labor then Finance
2011-01-27		Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
21A	5	7	Amended Code	Citation Text
21A	6	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
21A	6	3	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=310&year=2011&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb310%20intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=310