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Unemployment Compensation for Military Spouses 2007 Legislation
Last Updated: January 27, 2008
Enactments are noted in italics
NCSL Staff Contact: Heather Morton, (303) 364-7700, Denver
Please note the summary should be used for general informational purposes and not as a legal reference.
NCSL is unable to provide guidance to citizens or businesses regarding unemployment compensation benefits.
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Bill Summary: |
| Arkansas |
Signed by governor 3/6/07, Act 490
Amends various provisions of the Department of Workforce Services law; concerning disqualification for voluntarily leaving work, the bill adds the provision that allows individuals to claim unemployment compensation when moving with a military spouse to a new duty station.
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Connecticut
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H.B. 5153
Incorporated into H.B. 6680 2/22/07
Permits an individual to receive unemployment benefits when the individual leaves work to accompany a spouse who is on active duty with the armed services of the United States and is required by such service to relocate.
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H.B. 6680
Makes eligible for unemployment compensation benefits an employee who voluntarily leaves his or her job to accompany a spouse who is on active duty with the United States armed forces and required to relocate because of such duty. It establishes that an employer's unemployment taxes will not be directly affected by an employee who files a claim under the bill's provisions.
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| Michigan |
Removes the disqualification of certain spouses of reassigned military personnel for unemployment benefits.
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| Montana |
H.B. 58
Signed by governor 3/30/07, Chapter 86
Increases the maximum unemployment weekly benefit amount and increases the minimum unemployment weekly benefit if the unemployment insurance contributions schedule is Schedule I; provides that an individual is not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits if the individual leaves employment as a result of the mandatory military transfer of the individual's spouse.
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| New Jersey |
A.B. 348
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
Creates an exception for spouses of members of the armed forces who relocate outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible in all respects to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. Under the bill, employers whose workers receive these benefits will not be charged for these benefits.
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A.B. 1452
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
Creates an exception from the "voluntary quit" disqualification from unemployment benefits in the case of a spouse of a member of the armed forces who relocates outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. The bill also provides that no employer whose employees receive benefits under the bill will be charged for them. |
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A.B. 3282
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
S.B. 2104
Combined with S.B. 746 1/29/07
Creates an exception for spouses of members of the armed forces who relocate outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible in all respects to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. Under the bill, employers whose workers receive these benefits will not be charged for these benefits, except for governmental or non-profit “reimbursable” employers who make no contributions into the unemployment compensation fund.
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A.B. 3472
S.B. 746
Passed both houses 6/21/07
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
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| New Mexico |
H.B. 247
Signed by governor 4/2/07, Chapter 137
Prohibits charging a contributing base-period employer's account with any portion of benefits paid to an individual for dependent allowance or because the individual to whom benefits are paid: voluntarily left work to relocate because of a spouse, who is in the military service of the United States or the New Mexico National Guard, receiving permanent change of station orders, activation orders or unit deployment orders.
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| Oklahoma |
H.B. 1683
Relates to revenue and taxation; defines terms; authorizes income tax credit for certain qualified direct costs incurred by employers; provides credit available based upon certain voluntary employment terminations associated with military duty assignments of spouses; requires certain statements; prohibits use of credit to reduce tax liability beyond certain amount.
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| South Carolina |
S.B. 334
Vetoed by governor 6/6/07
Veto overridden 6/7/07, Act 67
Adds §41-35-126 so as to make an individual eligible for waiting week credit for unemployment compensation if the employment security commission finds that the individual has left work voluntarily to relocate because of the transfer of a spouse who has been reassigned from one military assignment to another under certain circumstances; and amends §41-35-130, as amended, relating to the payment of benefits to an insured worker under the employment security law, so as to provide that leaving an employer because of the transfer of a spouse from one military assignment to another does not disqualify a person from these benefits.
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Unemployment Compensation for Military Spouses 2007 Legislation
Last Updated: January 27, 2008
Enactments are noted in italics
NCSL Staff Contact: Heather Morton, (303) 364-7700, Denver
Please note the summary should be used for general informational purposes and not as a legal reference.
NCSL is unable to provide guidance to citizens or businesses regarding unemployment compensation benefits.
| State: |
Bill Summary: |
| Arkansas |
Signed by governor 3/6/07, Act 490
Amends various provisions of the Department of Workforce Services law; concerning disqualification for voluntarily leaving work, the bill adds the provision that allows individuals to claim unemployment compensation when moving with a military spouse to a new duty station.
|
|
Connecticut
|
H.B. 5153
Incorporated into H.B. 6680 2/22/07
Permits an individual to receive unemployment benefits when the individual leaves work to accompany a spouse who is on active duty with the armed services of the United States and is required by such service to relocate.
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H.B. 6680
Makes eligible for unemployment compensation benefits an employee who voluntarily leaves his or her job to accompany a spouse who is on active duty with the United States armed forces and required to relocate because of such duty. It establishes that an employer's unemployment taxes will not be directly affected by an employee who files a claim under the bill's provisions.
|
| Michigan |
Removes the disqualification of certain spouses of reassigned military personnel for unemployment benefits.
|
| Montana |
H.B. 58
Signed by governor 3/30/07, Chapter 86
Increases the maximum unemployment weekly benefit amount and increases the minimum unemployment weekly benefit if the unemployment insurance contributions schedule is Schedule I; provides that an individual is not disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits if the individual leaves employment as a result of the mandatory military transfer of the individual's spouse.
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| New Jersey |
A.B. 348
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
Creates an exception for spouses of members of the armed forces who relocate outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible in all respects to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. Under the bill, employers whose workers receive these benefits will not be charged for these benefits.
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A.B. 1452
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
Creates an exception from the "voluntary quit" disqualification from unemployment benefits in the case of a spouse of a member of the armed forces who relocates outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. The bill also provides that no employer whose employees receive benefits under the bill will be charged for them. |
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A.B. 3282
Combined with A.B. 3472 6/14/07
S.B. 2104
Combined with S.B. 746 1/29/07
Creates an exception for spouses of members of the armed forces who relocate outside of the state. If the spouse is otherwise eligible in all respects to obtain unemployment benefits, he or she may receive benefits. Under the bill, employers whose workers receive these benefits will not be charged for these benefits, except for governmental or non-profit “reimbursable” employers who make no contributions into the unemployment compensation fund.
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A.B. 3472
S.B. 746
Passed both houses 6/21/07
Provides unemployment benefits for certain spouses of armed services members.
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| New Mexico |
H.B. 247
Signed by governor 4/2/07, Chapter 137
Prohibits charging a contributing base-period employer's account with any portion of benefits paid to an individual for dependent allowance or because the individual to whom benefits are paid: voluntarily left work to relocate because of a spouse, who is in the military service of the United States or the New Mexico National Guard, receiving permanent change of station orders, activation orders or unit deployment orders.
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| Oklahoma |
H.B. 1683
Relates to revenue and taxation; defines terms; authorizes income tax credit for certain qualified direct costs incurred by employers; provides credit available based upon certain voluntary employment terminations associated with military duty assignments of spouses; requires certain statements; prohibits use of credit to reduce tax liability beyond certain amount.
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| South Carolina |
S.B. 334
Vetoed by governor 6/6/07
Veto overridden 6/7/07, Act 67
Adds §41-35-126 so as to make an individual eligible for waiting week credit for unemployment compensation if the employment security commission finds that the individual has left work voluntarily to relocate because of the transfer of a spouse who has been reassigned from one military assignment to another under certain circumstances; and amends §41-35-130, as amended, relating to the payment of benefits to an insured worker under the employment security law, so as to provide that leaving an employer because of the transfer of a spouse from one military assignment to another does not disqualify a person from these benefits.
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