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STATE OF WYOMING
SENATE FILE NO. SF0121
Indexing unemployment insurance.
Sponsored by: Senator(s) Driskill, Ide, Laursen, D, Salazar and Steinmetz and Representative(s)
Allemand, Bear, Davis, Heiner, Hornok,
Jennings, Larson, JT, Neiman, Oakley,
Ottman, Pendergraft, Slagle, Strock, Tarver and Wylie
A BILL
for
1 AN ACT relating to labor and employment; revising the
2 calculation of unemployment benefits; specifying
3 applicability; and providing for an effective date.
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5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
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7 Section 1. W.S. 27-3-304 is amended to read:
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9 27-3-304. Maximum payment.
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11 (a) Except as provided by W.S. 27-3-316, the maximum
12 amount of benefits payable to any eligible individual in a
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1 benefit year shall not exceed twenty-six (26) times his
2 weekly benefit or the lesser of:
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4 (i) Thirty percent (30%) of his wages payable
5 for insured work in his base period;, whichever is less.
6 This or
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8 (ii) For claims submitted during a calendar
9 year, an amount determined by multiplying the weekly
10 benefit of the individual by the following number of weeks:
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12 (A) Twelve (12) weeks if the state's
13 average unemployment rate is five percent (5%) or less;
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15 (B) Twelve (12) weeks plus an additional
16 week for every one-half of one percent (0.5%) that that the
17 state's average unemployment rate is above five percent
18 (5%);
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20 (C) A maximum of twenty-three (23) weeks if
21 the state's average unemployment rate equals or exceeds ten
22 and one-half percent (10.5%).
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1 (b) The amount calculated under this section shall be
2 computed to the next higher multiple of his the
3 individual's weekly benefit.
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5 (c) As used in this section, "state's average
6 unemployment rate" means the most recent average of the
7 seasonally adjusted statewide unemployment rates published
8 by the department of workforce services for the third
9 quarter which shall be the months of July, August and
10 September.
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12 Section 2. This act shall only apply to unemployment
13 claims filed on or after July 1, 2023.
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15 Section 3. This act is effective July 1, 2023.
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17 (END)
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Statutes affected:
Introduced: 27-3-304