Introduced
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To create an unemployment benefit system "Special Fraud Control" fund and require amounts recovered for unemployment insurance fraud violations to be deposited into it, to be used to pay for new fraud and overpayment prevention measures and software. The bill would also double the amount of damages that may be recovered for a second or subsequent fraud violation involving less than $500.
Referred to the Committee on Commerce
Reported without amendment
Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered
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To require rather than allow the state unemployment benefit system to waive any interest on penalties imposed for unintentional false statements by a recipient.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that also extends certain unemployment benefits.
The substitute failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 79 to 31 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Economic Development
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered
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To use the bill as a "vehicle" to reduce the duration of future unemployment benefit payments, and provide a one-time 20 week extension of payments to current beneficiaries.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To increase the amount of additional unemployment benefits paid for each dependent.
The amendment failed 12 to 25 (details)
Motion
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That the question be divided and that a separate vote be taken amendment No. 2.
The motion failed 12 to 25 (details)
Amendment offered
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To add employer underpayments of unemployment insurance assessments (taxes) as another goal of the proposed anti-fraud measures.
The amendment failed 13 to 24 (details)
Passed in the Senate 24 to 13 (details)
To reduce from 26 weeks to 20 weeks the amount of time a laid off employee can collect state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, beginning in 2012, which reportedly would save the system around $240 million annually. Michigan has borrowed $3.8 billion from the federal government to pay-out benefits boosted by higher unemployment and a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2002-HB-5763">2002 law</a> that boosted benefit levels; repaying the money imposes higher taxes on employers. The bill would also retroactively include current beneficiaries under a 20 week federal benefit extension (from 79 to 99 weeks), and use money recovered from fraud investigations to pay for new fraud and overpayment prevention measures and software.
Amendment offered
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To strip out the Senate-passed provision reducing from 26 weeks to 20 weeks the amount of time a laid off employee can collect state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To limit the Senate-passed reduction in the duration of future unemployment benefits to times when the state unemployment rate is below 4 percent.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To add employer underpayments of unemployment insurance assessments (taxes) as another goal of the proposed anti-fraud measures.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 65 to 44 (details)
To reduce from 26 weeks to 20 weeks the amount of time a laid off employee can collect state unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, beginning in 2012, which reportedly would save the system around $240 million annually. Michigan has borrowed $3.8 billion from the federal government to pay-out benefits boosted by higher unemployment and a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2002-HB-5763">2002 law</a> that boosted benefit levels; repaying the money imposes higher taxes on employers. The bill would also retroactively include current beneficiaries under a 20 week federal benefit extension (from 79 to 99 weeks), and use money recovered from fraud investigations to pay for new fraud and overpayment prevention measures and software.
