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2021 SENATE BILL 224
March 16, 2021 - Introduced by Senators SMITH, BEWLEY, JOHNSON, CARPENTER,
ERPENBACH, AGARD, L. TAYLOR, ROYS, WIRCH, RINGHAND, LARSON and PFAFF,
cosponsored by Representatives B. MEYERS, DOYLE, SHANKLAND, VINING, S.
RODRIGUEZ, MILROY, SINICKI, ANDRACA, CABRERA, BALDEH, SPREITZER, CONLEY,
EMERSON, SUBECK, HEBL, HINTZ, HESSELBEIN, SNODGRASS, OHNSTAD, ANDERSON,
DRAKE, VRUWINK, BILLINGS, GOYKE, BOWEN, STUBBS, MCGUIRE, NEUBAUER,
HONG, POPE, ORTIZ-VELEZ, BROSTOFF and CONSIDINE. Referred to Committee on
Labor and Regulatory Reform.
1 AN ACT to amend 108.04 (3) (b) of the statutes; relating to: the unemployment
2 insurance waiting period.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Currently, a claimant must generally wait one week after becoming eligible to
receive unemployment insurance benefits before the claimant may receive benefits
for a week of unemployment, but the application of the one-week waiting period is
temporarily suspended for benefit years that began after March 12, 2020, and before
March 14, 2021. This bill extends the end date for suspending the one-week waiting
period to September 5, 2021.
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:
3 SECTION 1. 108.04 (3) (b) of the statutes, as affected by 2021 Wisconsin Act 4,
4 is amended to read:
5 108.04 (3) (b) Paragraph (a) does not apply with respect to benefit years that
6 begin after March 12, 2020, and before March 14 September 5, 2021. The
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SENATE BILL 224 SECTION 1
1 department shall seek the maximum amount of federal reimbursement for benefits
2 that are, during the time period specified in this paragraph, payable for the first
3 week of a claimant's benefit year as a result of the application of this paragraph.
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