Legislation regarding Unemployment Benefits for Military Spouses
2007 Legislation
July 23, 2007
Enactments are noted in italics
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Bill Summary: |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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