LRB-0362/P2
EAW:amn
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0062 - Voluntary termination eligibility
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
employment
Unemployment insurance; quits due to relocations
Under current law, unless an exception applies, if an individual quits his or her job, the individual is generally ineligible to receive unemployment insurance (UI) benefits until he or she qualifies through subsequent employment.
Under one such exception, if the employee's spouse is a member of the U.S. armed forces on active duty and is relocated, and the employee quits his or her job in order to relocate with his or her spouse, the employee remains eligible to collect UI benefits. This bill expands this exception so that it applies to an employee who quits employment in order to relocate with a spouse who is required by any employer, not just the U.S. armed forces, to relocate.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 108.04 (7) (t) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
Section
2. 108.04 (7) (t) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
108.04 (7) (t) 2. The employee's spouse was required by the U.S. armed forces his or her employing unit to relocate to a place to which it is impractical for the employee to commute.
Section 9350.
Initial applicability; Workforce Development.
(1)
Unemployment insurance; quits due to relocations. The treatment of s. 108.04 (7) (t) 1. and 2. first applies to determinations issued under s. 108.09 on the effective date of this subsection.
Section 9450.
Effective dates; Workforce Development.
(1) Unemployment insurance; quits due to relocations. The treatment of s. 108.04 (7) (t) 1. and 2. and Section 9350 (1) of this act take effect on the first Sunday of the 2nd month beginning after publication.
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