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Bill Summary: |
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Colorado |
H.B. 1265
Signed by governor 6/2/05, Chapter 248
Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany his or her military-connected spouse for medical reasons, from which location the employee's place of employment is not reasonably accessible. |
| Connecticut |
H.B. 5227
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/29/05
Provides unemployment benefits to spouses of active duty military personnel who are forced to quit their jobs due to the reassignment or transfer of the active duty spouse. |
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S.B. 582
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Provides unemployment benefits to spouses of active duty military personnel who are forced to quit their jobs due to the reassignment or transfer of the active duty spouse. |
| Georgia |
H.B. 404
Signed by governor 4/21/04, Act 49
Relates to grounds for disqualification of unemployment benefits, so as to provide that leaving an employer because of the transfer of a spouse from one military assignment to another shall not disqualify a person from such benefits. |
| Kentucky |
H.B. 293
Passed House 2/25/05
Amends KRS 341.370 to prohibit benefit disqualification of a spouse who leaves employment because of a military transfer. |
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S.B. 33
Amends KRS 341.370 to prohibit benefit disqualification of a spouse who leaves employment because of a military transfer. |
| Michigan |
S.B. 62
Relates to employment security benefits and eligibility for benefits; removes disqualification of certain spouses of reassigned military personnel. |
| New Jersey |
A.B. 971
S.B. 1417
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. 2804
Creates the Armed Services Unemployment Benefits Act; 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. |
| New Mexico |
H.B. 520
Signed by governor 4/6/05, Chapter 255
Relates to unemployment compensation; provides that an Individual shall not be disqualified from benefits for leaving employment because of a spouse's relocation due to military service; amends the unemployment compensation law to provide additional criteria for the transfer of experience history with the transfer of an employing enterprise; providing civil and criminal penalties. |
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S.B. 920
Pocket vetoed by governor 4/8/05
Relates to unemployment compensation; provides that an individual shall not be disqualified from benefits for leaving employment because of a spouse's relocation due to military service. |
| Oklahoma |
H.B. 1922
Passed House 3/19/05
Authorizes income tax credit for certain employer expenses; provides for credit based upon voluntary employment terminations related to military duty of spouses. |
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H.B. 2004
Relates to unemployment benefits; adds exception to certain disqualification of benefits. |
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H.B. 2949
Authorizes income tax credit for certain employer expenses; provides for credit based upon voluntary employment terminations related to military duty of spouses. |
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S.B. 947
Establishes an income tax credit for employing a spouse of a military personnel; provides for the amount of the credit; specifies the period during which the credit may be claimed; provides the unused credit to be carried forward. |
| Oregon |
H.B. 2818
Requires the Employment Department to refer an unemployment insurance recipient who is a spouse or dependent of an individual deployed on active military duty to the JOBS Plus Program job before referring any other unemployment insurance recipients to a program job. |
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S.B. 690
Signed by governor 6/14/05, Chapter 174
Permits payment of supplemental unemployment benefits to dislocated workers whose unemployment is due to release from military duty related to deployment of Oregon National Guard or military reserves in Afghanistan or Iraq. |
| Texas |
H.B. 2401
Tabled 4/29/05
S.B. 1342
Signed by governor 5/9/05
Expands the list of employees who may not be disqualified from unemployment insurance benefits, to include military spouses who move as a result of their spouse's permanent change of station or a tour of duty of over a year. This benefit is added without affecting the employers' unemployment insurance account, by exempting them from the benefit's chargeback system. |
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S.B. 212
Signed by governor 6/17/05, Chapter 682
Directs the Texas Workforce Commission to create programs in Texas' defense dependent communities to support military families by providing employment assistance services to the spouses and dependents of military personnel who are assigned to duty in Texas. |
| Virginia |
H.B. 1491
Stricken from docket 2/3/05
Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany his spouse, who is an enlisted person on active duty in the military or naval services of the United States in pay grades E-1 through E-8, to a new military assignment from which the employee's place of employment is not reasonably accessible. Benefits paid to qualifying claimants shall be charged against the pool rather than against the claimant's employer. The provisions of this bill shall expire on July 1, 2007. |
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H.B. 1495
Stricken from docket 2/3/05
Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany his spouse, who is an enlisted person on active duty in the military or naval services of the United States in pay grades E-1 through E-8, to a new military assignment from which the employee's place of employment is not reasonably accessible. Benefits paid to qualifying claimants shall be charged against the pool rather than against the claimant's employer. The provisions of this bill shall expire on July 1, 2007. |
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H.B. 1700
Stricken from docket 1/24/05
Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany his spouse, who is an enlisted person on active duty in the military or naval services of the United States, to a new military assignment (i) from which the employee's place of employment is not reasonably accessible, and (ii) which is located in a state that, pursuant to statute, does not deem a person accompanying a military spouse as a person leaving work voluntarily without good cause. Benefits paid to qualifying claimants shall be charged against the pool rather than against the claimant's employer. The provisions of this bill shall expire on July 1, 2007. |
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