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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 937

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Relating to: the amount of benefits received under the unemployment insurance law. (FE)

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

This bill changes the maximum number of weeks of regular unemployment

insurance (UI) benefits payable to an eligible claimant who is totally unemployed to

an amount that varies depending upon the seasonally adjusted statewide average

unemployment rate for the first or third calendar quarter immediately preceding the

beginning of the claimant's benefit year.

Currently, the maximum number of weeks of regular UI benefits payable to an

eligible claimant who is totally unemployed and who earns sufficient wages to

qualify for those benefits is fixed at 26 weeks.

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Under the bill, the maximum number of weeks for claimants whose benefit

years begin during the first half of a given year is based upon the unemployment rate

for the third quarter of the preceding year, and the maximum number of weeks for

claimants whose benefit years begin during the second half of a given year is based

upon the unemployment rate for the first quarter of that year. Once a claimant

begins a benefit year, the claimant's maximum number of weeks of regular benefits

is fixed for that benefit year. Because the maximum number of weeks of state

supplemental benefits payable to a claimant is calculated in part based upon the

maximum number of weeks of regular benefits payable to a claimant, the change also

affects the maximum number of weeks of state supplemental benefits payable to a

claimant. Under the bill, the maximum number of weeks of regular benefits for total

unemployment is determined as follows:

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See PDF for table

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , August (R) , Born (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Callahan (R) , Dallman (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , James (R) , Katsma (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Magnafici (R) , Moses (R) , Penterman (R) , Petersen (R) , Plumer (R) , Schraa (R) , Snyder (R) , Sortwell (R) , Steffen (R) , Tusler (R) , Vorpagel (R) , Wittke (R) , Zimmerman (R)

6 cosponsors

Bernier (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Feyen (R) , Marklein (R) , Murphy (R) , Stroebel (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 7, Noes 5

Passed 7–5 Feb 11, 2022 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 34

Passed 58–34 Feb 17, 2022 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 57–35 Feb 17, 2022 official source full page

Aye · 57

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Feb 18, 2022 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 19–14 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

Full history

  1. Jan 31, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Dallman, Vorpagel, Wittke, Allen, Armstrong, August, Brandtjen, Cabral-Guevara, Callahan, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, James, Katsma, Kitchens, Knodl, Krug, Kuglitsch, Magnafici, Moses, Penterman, Petersen, Plumer, Schraa, Snyder, Sortwell, Steffen, Tusler, Zimmerman and Born; cosponsored by Senators Feyen, Bernier, Felzkowski, Marklein and Stroebel

  2. Jan 31, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Workforce Development

  3. Feb 3, 2022 · Assembly

    Representative Murphy added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 8, 2022 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  6. Feb 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Feb 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Workforce Development, Ayes 7, Noes 5

  8. Feb 11, 2022 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Feb 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-17-2022 by Committee on Rules

  10. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Sinicki, Shankland, Andraca, Drake, Spreitzer, Subeck, Neubauer, Hong, Emerson, B. Meyers, Ohnstad, Billings, Goyke, Doyle, Hesselbein, Conley, Vining, S. Rodriguez, McGuire, Baldeh, Shelton, Considine, Stubbs, Brostoff, Snodgrass, Bowen, Hebl, Vruwink, Pope, Riemer and Haywood

  11. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 laid on table, Ayes 58, Noes 34

  12. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  14. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 57, Noes 35, Paired 4

  15. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Feb 17, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  17. Feb 17, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  18. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Senate Organization

  19. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  20. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 5, Noes 0

  21. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-22-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  22. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  23. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  25. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 19, Noes 14

  26. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  28. Mar 1, 2022 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  29. Mar 1, 2022 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 3-1-2022

  30. Apr 13, 2022 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 4-13-2022

  31. Apr 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-15-2022

  32. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

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

  33. May 17, 2022 · Assembly

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