Under existing law, the maximum amount of benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year is the lesser of 26 times his or her weekly benefit amount and one-third of the wages paid to the individual for insured work during a base period.
This bill would revise the maximum amount of benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year to be the lesser of 14 or 20 times his or her weekly benefit amount and one-fourth of the wages paid to the individual for insured work during a base period dependent upon the state's average unemployment rate.
This bill would revise the maximum weekly benefit amount to an amount that is an equal division of the current weeks compensated of the average of the wages for insured work paid to the individual during the two quarters of his or her base period in which the total wages were the highest.
Commerce and Small Business first Substitute Offered
Pending third reading on day 21 Favorable from Commerce and Small Business with 1 substitute
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Commerce and Small Business
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 122
Third Reading Passed
Orr motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Smitherman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 113
Smitherman Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Orr motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Source: Alabama Legislature