2002 House Bill 5763 ↩

House Roll Call 280: The substitute was not adopted

To replace the previous version of the bill with one which increases the state maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit from $300 to $415, increases the non-maximum benefit by approximately five percent, does not include a “waiting week” provision, does not consider severance pay in determining when a claimant would first be eligible for benefits, and does not require all beneficiaries to accept alternative work that pays at least 70% of the previous compensation, but instead leaves in place a sliding scale of 80-percent dropping to 70-percent depending on how many weeks of benefits have been collected.