Various changes to the unemployment insurance law and making an appropriation. (FE)

Charging of certain benefits Under current law, whenever UI benefits are chargeable based on federal employment, DWD is to charge those benefits to the federal government. The bill allows DWD to instead pay those benefits from interest and penalty moneys appropriated to DWD in the case where the federal government refuses to reimburse the benefits.

Other changes The bill makes various changes to a) reorganize, clarify, and update provisions relating to the financing of the UI law; and b) address numerous out-of-date or erroneous cross-references in the UI law, including all of the following:

1. Repealing and consolidating certain appropriations and making other changes to clarify the funding sources and receiving appropriations for various revenues and expenses under the UI law.

2. Creating a program revenue appropriation for the Labor and Industry Review Commission to collect moneys received for the copying and generation of documents and for other services provided in carrying out its functions.

3. Changing certain out-of-date cross-references to federal law to reflect current federal law and the current numbering under the U.S. Code.

4. Repealing certain provisions that reference federal laws that have been repealed and deleting other obsolete references to state laws.

5. Correcting various cross-references that are otherwise incomplete or erroneous.

6. Replacing certain references to provisions in federal acts or to the Internal Revenue Code with references to the U.S. Code in order to facilitate accessibility to federal law.

7. Making other nonsubstantive changes to the unemployment insurance law to improve organization, modernize language, and provide further clarity, specificity, and consistency in the law.