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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 237

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Relating to: deposits into the unemployment reserve fund. (FE)

Federal aid Governor Unemployment insurance

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, stopped here
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

EMPLOYMENT

Deposits into unemployment reserve fund

Current law provides four schedules of unemployment insurance contribution

(tax) rates, with Schedule D containing the lowest rates and Schedule A containing

the highest. Which schedule is in effect for a given calendar year depends on the cash

balance of the state's unemployment reserve fund as of the preceding June 30.

Schedule D, which is in effect in calendar year 2021, is otherwise in effect for any

calendar year whenever, as of the preceding June 30, the state's unemployment

reserve fund has a cash balance of at least $1,200,000,000. If the state's

unemployment reserve fund has a cash balance of less than $1,200,000,000, then one

of the three other schedules applies, depending on the fund's cash balance.

This bill requires the governor to allocate federal moneys provided to this state,

including moneys provided under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, for

one or more deposits into the state unemployment reserve fund, to the extent that

the deposits are needed to keep Schedule D of the unemployment insurance

contribution (tax) rates in effect through the end of calendar year 2023.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Born (R) , Brooks (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Callahan (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , James (R) , Katsma (R) , Krug (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Oldenburg (R) , Petryk (R) , Plumer (R) , Rozar (R) , Snyder (R) , Swearingen (R) , Tranel (R) , Tusler (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

10 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Jacque (R) , Kitchens and Allen , Knodl (R) , Marklein (R) , Schraa (R) , Stafsholt (R) , Steffen (R) , Stroebel (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 8, Noes 3

Passed 8–3 Apr 7, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 58, Noes 36

Passed 58–36 Apr 13, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 57–36 Apr 13, 2021 official source full page

Aye · 57

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Apr 14, 2021 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: CONCURRENCE

Passed 18–13 Apr 14, 2021 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Apr 2, 2021 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Petryk, Brooks, Armstrong, Born, Cabral-Guevara, Callahan, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, James, Katsma, Krug, Loudenbeck, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Oldenburg, Plumer, Rozar, Snyder, Swearingen, Tranel, Tusler, Vorpagel, Wittke and Zimmerman; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Bernier, Stroebel, Felzkowski, Jacque and Stafsholt

  2. Apr 2, 2021 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development

  3. Apr 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Knodl added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Shankland and Sinicki

  5. Apr 6, 2021 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Apr 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Schraa added as a coauthor

  7. Apr 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Apr 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 8, Noes 3

  9. Apr 7, 2021 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  10. Apr 8, 2021 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 4-13-2021 by Committee on Rules

  11. Apr 9, 2021 · Assembly

    Representative Steffen added as a coauthor

  12. Apr 12, 2021 · Assembly

    Representatives Kitchens and Allen added as coauthors

  13. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Billings, Bowen, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Doyle, Drake, Emerson, Goyke, Haywood, Hebl, Hesselbein, Hintz, Hong, McGuire, B. Meyers, Milroy, Moore Omokunde, L. Myers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Ortiz-Velez, Pope, Riemer, S. Rodriguez, Shankland, Shelton, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink

  15. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 58, Noes 36

  16. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 57, Noes 36

  19. Apr 13, 2021 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  21. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

  22. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 4-14-2021 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  23. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Read a second time

  24. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  26. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 13

  27. Apr 14, 2021 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Apr 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  29. Apr 14, 2021 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 4-14-2021

  30. Apr 21, 2021 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-21-2021 by directive of the Speaker

  31. Apr 22, 2021 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  32. Apr 22, 2021 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-22-2021

  33. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-17-2022 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  34. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82