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108.13
(4) (e) Any amount deducted and withheld under par. (c) shall, for all
6purposes, be treated as if it were paid to the claimant as unemployment
7compensation insurance and paid by the claimant to the state or local child support
8enforcement agency in satisfaction of his or her child support obligations.
SB327, s. 98
9Section
98. 108.13 (4) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.13
(4) (f) This subsection applies only if appropriate arrangements are
11made for the local child support enforcement agency to reimburse the department for
12administrative costs incurred by the department that are attributable to the
13interception of unemployment
compensation insurance for child support obligations.
SB327, s. 99
14Section
99. 108.135 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.135
(1) (intro.) The department shall advise each claimant filing a new
16claim for unemployment
compensation insurance, at the time of filing the claim,
17that:
SB327, s. 100
18Section
100. 108.135 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.135
(1) (a) Unemployment
compensation insurance is subject to federal
20and Wisconsin income taxes.
SB327, s. 101
21Section
101. 108.14 (5) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(5) (a) The council on unemployment
compensation insurance shall
23advise the department in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. The council shall
24submit its recommendations with respect to amendments of this chapter to each
1regular session of the legislature, and shall report its views on any pending bill
2relating to this chapter to the proper legislative committee.
SB327, s. 102
3Section
102. 108.14 (5) (ag) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(5) (ag) The vote of 7 of the voting members of the council on
5unemployment
compensation insurance is required for the council to act on a matter
6before it.
SB327, s. 103
7Section
103. 108.14 (5) (ar) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(5) (ar) The department shall present to the council on unemployment
9compensation insurance every proposal initiated by the department for changes in
10this chapter and shall seek the council's concurrence with the proposal. The
11department shall give careful consideration to every proposal submitted by the
12council for legislative or administrative action and shall review each legislative
13proposal for possible incorporation into departmental recommendations.
SB327, s. 104
14Section
104. 108.14 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(6) It shall be one of the purposes of this chapter to promote the
16regularization of employment in enterprises, localities, industries and the state. The
17department, with the advice and aid of any employment councils appointed under
18sub. (5) (b) and the council on unemployment
compensation insurance, shall take all
19appropriate steps within its means to reduce and prevent unemployment. The
20department shall also conduct continuing research relating to the current and
21anticipated condition of the fund to ensure the continued availability of benefits to
22unemployed individuals under this chapter. To these ends the department may
23employ experts, and may carry on and publish the results of any investigations and
24research which it deems relevant, whether or not directly related to the other
25purposes and specific provisions of this chapter. At least once a year the department
1shall compile and publish a summary report stating the experience of employer
2accounts, without naming any employer, and covering such other material as it
3deems significant in connection with the operations and purposes of this chapter.
SB327, s. 105
4Section
105. 108.14 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(7) (a) The records made or maintained by the department or
6commission in connection with the administration of this chapter are confidential
7and shall be open to public inspection or disclosure only to the extent that the
8department or commission permits in the interest of the unemployment
9compensation insurance program. No person may permit inspection or disclosure of
10any record provided to it by the department or commission unless the department
11or commission authorizes the inspection or disclosure.
SB327, s. 106
12Section
106. 108.14 (8) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8) (a) The department may enter into administrative arrangements
14with any agency similarly charged with the administration of any other
15unemployment
compensation insurance law, for the purpose of assisting the
16department and such agencies in paying benefits under the several laws to employes
17while outside their territorial jurisdictions. Such arrangements may provide that
18the respective agencies shall, for and on behalf of each other, act as agents in effecting
19registration for work, notices of unemployment, and any other certifications or
20statements relating to an employe's claim for benefits, in making investigations,
21taking depositions, holding hearings, or otherwise securing information relating to
22coverage or contribution liability or benefit eligibility and payments; and in such
23other matters as the department may consider suitable in effecting the purpose of
24these administrative arrangements.
SB327, s. 107
25Section
107. 108.14 (8m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1108.14
(8m) (a) The department may enter into reciprocal arrangements, with
2any agency administering another unemployment
compensation insurance law,
3whereby all the services performed by an individual for a single employing unit,
4which services are customarily performed in more than one state or jurisdiction,
5shall be deemed to be employment covered by the law of a specified state or
6jurisdiction in which a part of such services are performed, or in which such
7individual has residence, or in which such employing unit maintains a place of
8business; provided there is in effect, as to such services, an election by such
9employing unit, approved by the agency administering the specified law, pursuant
10to which all the services performed by such individual for such employing unit are
11deemed to be employment covered by such law.
SB327, s. 108
12Section
108. 108.14 (8n) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8n) (a) The department shall enter into a reciprocal arrangement
14which is approved by the U.S. secretary of labor pursuant to section
3304 (a) (9) (B)
15of the internal revenue code, to provide more equitable benefit coverage for
16individuals whose recent work has been covered by the unemployment
compensation 17insurance laws of 2 or more jurisdictions.
SB327, s. 109
18Section
109. 108.14 (8n) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8n) (b) Such arrangements may provide, as to any individual whose
20employment has been covered by this chapter and by the unemployment
21compensation insurance law of one or more other participating jurisdictions, for
22transfer by the department to another agency of relevant records or information, and
23the acceptance and use thereof, in combination with similar data from other
24jurisdictions, by such other agency, as a basis for computing and paying benefits
25under the law administered by such other agency. Reciprocally, such arrangements
1may provide for similar acceptance, combination and use by the department of data
2received from other jurisdictions to compute and pay benefits under this chapter.
SB327, s. 110
3Section
110. 108.14 (8s) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8s) (a) Overpayments of unemployment
compensation insurance 5benefits as determined under this chapter may be recovered by offset from
6unemployment
compensation insurance benefits otherwise payable under the
7unemployment
compensation insurance law of another state, and overpayments of
8unemployment
compensation insurance benefits as determined under the
9unemployment
compensation insurance law of that other state may be recovered by
10offset from unemployment
compensation insurance benefits otherwise payable
11under this chapter; and
SB327, s. 111
12Section
111. 108.14 (8s) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8s) (b) Overpayments of unemployment
compensation insurance 14benefits as determined under applicable federal law, with respect to benefits or
15allowances for unemployment provided under a federal program administered by
16this state under an agreement with the U.S. secretary of labor, may be recovered by
17offset from unemployment
compensation insurance benefits otherwise payable
18under that program, or under the unemployment
compensation insurance law of this
19state or of another state or any such federal unemployment benefit or allowance
20program administered by the other state under an agreement with the U.S. secretary
21of labor if the other state has in effect a reciprocal agreement with the U.S. secretary
22of labor as authorized by
42 USC 503 (g) (2), if the United States agrees, as provided
23in the reciprocal agreement with this state entered into under
42 USC 503 (g) (2),
24that overpayments of unemployment
compensation insurance benefits as
25determined under this chapter, and overpayments as determined under the
1unemployment
compensation insurance law of another state which has in effect a
2reciprocal agreement with the U.S. secretary of labor as authorized by
42 USC 503 3(g) (2), may be recovered by offset from benefits or allowances for unemployment
4otherwise payable under a federal program administered by this state or the other
5state under an agreement with the U.S. secretary of labor.
SB327, s. 112
6Section
112. 108.14 (8t) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(8t) If the agency administering another unemployment
compensation 8insurance law has overpaid benefits to an individual located in Wisconsin, and
9certifies to the department the facts involved and that the individual is liable, under
10such law, to repay such benefits, and requests the department to recover such
11overpayment, and agrees to reimburse the department for any court costs incurred
12by it in such recovery efforts, the department may in its own name, but acting as
13agent for such other agency, collect such overpayment by civil action, and shall pay
14the net amount recovered to such other agency.
SB327, s. 113
15Section
113. 108.14 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(9) The department may make its records relating to the administration
17of this chapter available to the Railroad Retirement Board, and may furnish the
18Railroad Retirement Board, at the expense of said board, such copies thereof as said
19board deems necessary for its purposes. The department may afford reasonable
20cooperation with every agency of the United States charged with the administration
21of any unemployment
compensation insurance law. The department may make
22arrangements or agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board, or any other
23agency of the United States charged with the administration of an unemployment
24compensation insurance law, with respect to the establishment, maintenance and
25use of free employment service facilities, the taking and certifying of claims, the
1making of investigations, and the supplying of other information or services related
2to unemployment
compensation insurance, but the department may not make or
3renew any such arrangement or agreement unless it finds that its resulting
4administrative costs are approximately covered or offset by the facilities, services
5and payments to be made available thereunder by such federal agency. Any moneys
6received by the department under this subsection shall be paid into the federal
7administrative financing account under s. 108.161.
SB327, s. 114
8Section
114. 108.14 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(13) The department may, with the advice of the council on
10unemployment
compensation insurance, by general rule modify or suspend any
11provision of this chapter if and to the extent necessary to permit continued
12certification of this chapter for grants to this state under Title III of the federal social
13security act and for maximum credit allowances to employers under the federal
14unemployment tax act.
SB327, s. 115
15Section
115. 108.14 (14) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.14
(14) The department shall fully cooperate with the agencies of other
17states, and shall make every proper effort within its means, to oppose and prevent
18any further action which would in its judgment tend to effect complete or substantial
19federalization of state unemployment
compensation
insurance funds or state
20employment security programs.
SB327, s. 116
21Section
116. 108.14 (18) of the statutes is created to read:
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108.14
(18) No later than the end of the month following each quarter in which
23the department expends moneys derived from assessments levied under s. 108.19
24(1e), the department shall submit a report to the council on unemployment insurance
1describing the use of the moneys expended and the status at the end of the quarter
2of any project for which moneys were expended.
SB327, s. 117
3Section
117. 108.141 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(1) (b) 3. Has no right to unemployment benefits or allowances, as the
5case may be, under the railroad unemployment insurance act or such other federal
6laws as are specified in regulations issued by the U.S. secretary of labor, and has not
7received and is not seeking unemployment benefits under the unemployment
8compensation insurance law of Canada, but if the individual is seeking such benefits
9and the appropriate agency finally determines that he or she is not entitled to
10benefits under such law he or she is an exhaustee.
SB327, s. 118
11Section
118. 108.141 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(1) (h) "State law" means the unemployment
compensation insurance 13law of any state, approved by the U.S. secretary of labor under section
3304 of the
14internal revenue code.
SB327, s. 119
15Section
119. 108.141 (3g) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (a) 1. If
an individual
a claimant fails to provide sufficient
17evidence that his or her prospects for obtaining work in his or her customary
18occupation within a period of time not exceeding 4 weeks, beginning with the first
19week of eligibility for extended benefits, are good, this paragraph, rather than s.
20108.04 (8), applies.
SB327, s. 120
21Section
120. 108.141 (3g) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (a) 2.
An individual
A claimant who
, during or after the first week
23following the week that the department notifies the claimant in writing of the
24requirements to apply for and accept suitable work, fails either to apply for suitable
25work when notified by a public employment office or to accept suitable work when
1offered is ineligible to receive extended benefits
beginning with the first week
2following the week that the department notifies the individual in writing of the
3requirements to apply for and accept such work for the week in which
such a the 4failure occurs and for
the weeks following each week thereafter until the
individual 5claimant has again
worked within
been employed during at least 4 subsequent
6weeks
in employment or other work covered by the unemployment insurance law of
7any state or the federal government and earned wages
for such work equal to at least
84 times his or her extended weekly benefit rate.
SB327, s. 121
9Section
121. 108.141 (3g) (a) 3. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (a) 3. a. It is any work within the
individual's claimant's 11capabilities;
SB327, s. 122
12Section
122. 108.141 (3g) (a) 3. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (a) 3. b. The gross average weekly remuneration for the work
14exceeds the
individual's claimant's weekly benefit rate plus any supplemental
15unemployment benefits, as defined in section
501 (c) (17) (D) of the internal revenue
16code, then payable to the
individual claimant;
SB327, s. 123
17Section
123. 108.141 (3g) (a) 3. d. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (a) 3. d. The offer of work to the
individual claimant was in writing
19or the position was listed with a public employment office.
SB327, s. 124
20Section
124. 108.141 (3g) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (c) A
claimant shall make a systematic and sustained effort to
22obtain work
shall be made and
provide tangible evidence thereof
provided to the
23department
in each week by a claimant for each week for which the claimant files
24a claim for extended benefits. If a claimant fails to make the required effort to obtain
25work or to provide tangible evidence thereof,
on a weekly basis, he or she is ineligible
1for to receive extended benefits for the week in which the failure occurs and
for each
2week thereafter until he or she has again
worked within been employed during at
3least 4 subsequent weeks
in employment or other work covered by the
4unemployment insurance law of any state or the federal government and has earned
5wages
for such work equal to at least 4 times his or her weekly extended benefit rate.
SB327, s. 125
6Section
125. 108.141 (3g) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (d) Notwithstanding s. 108.04 (6) and (7),
an individual a claimant 8who was disqualified from receipt of benefits because of voluntarily terminating
9employment or incurring a disciplinary suspension for
misconduct or other good
10cause is ineligible to receive extended benefits
unless the individual has, since the
11date of that disqualification, for the week in which the termination occurs or the
12suspension begins and for each week thereafter until he or she has again been
13employed during at least 4 subsequent weeks
in employment or other work covered
14by the unemployment insurance law of any state or the federal government and
15earned wages
for such work equal to at least 4 times his or her weekly extended
16benefit rate.
SB327, s. 126
17Section
126. 108.141 (3g) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.141
(3g) (e) Extended benefits shall not be denied under par. (a) 2. to
an
19individual a claimant for any week if the failure would not result in a denial of
20benefits under the law of the state governing eligibility for such benefits to the extent
21that the law is not inconsistent with this subsection.
SB327, s. 127
22Section
127. 108.142 (1) (h) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.142
(1) (h) 3. Has no right to unemployment benefits or allowances under
24the railroad unemployment insurance act or such other federal laws as are specified
25in regulations issued by the U.S. secretary of labor, and has not received and is not
1seeking unemployment benefits under the unemployment
compensation insurance 2law of Canada, but if the individual is seeking such benefits and the appropriate
3agency finally determines that he or she is not entitled to benefits under that law,
4the individual is an "exhaustee".
SB327, s. 128
5Section
128. 108.142 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.142
(1) (i) "State law" means the unemployment
compensation insurance 7law of any state, approved by the U.S. secretary of labor under section
3304 of the
8internal revenue code.
SB327, s. 129
9Section
129. 108.16 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.16
(5) (b) The department shall requisition from this state's account in the
11"Unemployment Trust Fund" necessary amounts from time to time, shall hold such
12amounts consistently with any applicable federal regulations, and shall make
13withdrawals therefrom solely for benefits and for such other unemployment
14compensation insurance payments or employment security expenditures as are
15expressly authorized by this chapter and consistent with any relevant federal
16requirements.
SB327, s. 130
17Section
130. 108.16 (7m) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.16
(7m) The fund's treasurer may write off, by charging to the fund's
19balancing account, any delinquent
unemployment compensation contribution,
20reimbursement in lieu of contribution, tardy payment or filing fee, or interest for
21which the employer's liability to the fund was established under s. 108.10, upon
22receipt of certification by the department that reasonable efforts have been made to
23recover the delinquency and that the delinquency is uncollectible.
SB327, s. 131
24Section
131. 108.161 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1108.161
(3) Consistently with this chapter and said section 903, such moneys
2shall be used solely for benefits or employment security administration, including
3unemployment
compensation insurance, employment service and related statistical
4operations.
SB327, s. 132
5Section
132. 108.162 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.162
(1) The amounts appropriated under s. 20.445 (1) (na) shall be used
7for employment security administration, including unemployment
compensation 8insurance, employment service and related statistical operations; for capital outlay
9to buy suitable parcels of land for buildings designed for employment security
10operations; and to finance the designing and construction of such buildings, and for
11such equipment, facilities, paving, landscaping and other improvements as are
12required for the proper use and operation of buildings occupied by the department
13for employment security administration.
SB327, s. 133
14Section
133. 108.162 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.162
(3) The amount obligated under this section during any fiscal year may
16not exceed the aggregate of all amounts credited under s. 108.161 (1), including
17amounts credited under s. 108.161 (8), reduced
by the amount obligated under s.
1820.445 (1) (nb) and further reduced at the time of any obligation by the sum of the
19moneys obligated and charged against any of the amounts thus credited.
SB327, s. 134
20Section
134. 108.18 (3m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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108.18
(3m) (b) "Schedule B" is in effect for any calendar year whenever, as of
22the preceding June 30, the fund has a cash balance of at least $300,000,000 but less
23than
$1,000,000,000 $900,000,000.
SB327, s. 135
24Section
135. 108.18 (3m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1108.18
(3m) (c) "Schedule C" is in effect for any calendar year whenever, as of
2the preceding June 30, the fund has a cash balance of at least
$1,000,000,000 3$900,000,000 but less than $1,200,000,000.
SB327, s. 136
4Section
136. 108.18 (3m) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
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108.18
(3m) (d) "Schedule D" is in effect for any calendar year whenever, as of
6the preceding June 30, the fund has a cash balance of at least $1,200,000,000.
SB327, s. 137
7Section
137. 108.18 (4) (figure) Schedule D of the statutes is created to read:
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9Figure: 108.18 (4) Schedule D:
SB327, s. 138
2Section
138. 108.18 (7) (a) 1. and (h) of the statutes are amended to read:
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108.18
(7) (a) 1. Except as provided in pars. (b) to (h), any employer may make
4payments to the fund during the month of November in excess of those required by
5this section and s. 108.19 (1)
and (1e). Each payment shall be credited to the
6employer's account for the purpose of computing the employer's reserve percentage
7as of the immediately preceding computation date.
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(h) The department shall establish contributions other than those required by
9this section and s. 108.19 (1)
and (1e) and contributions other than those submitted
10during the month of November or authorized under par. (f) as a credit against future
11contributions payable by the employer or shall refund the contributions at the
12employer's option.
SB327, s. 139
1Section
139. 108.18 (9) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read: