SB 672

This bill makes various changes in the unemployment insurance (UI) law,

which is administered by the Department of Workforce Development. Significant

changes include all of the following:

Segregated fund

This bill creates a segregated fund to receive various program revenue moneys

received by DWD under the UI law that are not otherwise credited to other

segregated funds, including various moneys collected by DWD as interest and

penalties under the UI law and all other nonfederal moneys received for the

administration of the UI law that are not otherwise appropriated. Current law

provides for depositing these revenues in appropriations in the general fund.

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relating to the financing of the UI law; and b) address numerous out-of-date or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 Changing certain out-of-date cross-references to federal law to reflect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repealed and deleting other obsolete references to state laws.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.