Under existing law, the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year is the lesser of 26 times the individual's weekly benefit amount or one-third of the wages paid to the individual for insured work during his or her base period.
This bill would revise the maximum amount of unemployment benefits payable to an individual in a benefit year contingent on the state's average unemployment rate, but in no event would the maximum amount of benefits exceed the lesser of 20 times the individual's weekly benefit amount or one-fourth of the wages paid during his or her base period.
This bill would revise the maximum weekly unemployment 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.
This bill would also revise the reductions in unemployment benefit amounts due to disqualification in certain circumstances.
Assigned Act No. 2019-204.
Enrolled
Passed Second House
Signature Requested
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 672
Garrett motion to Table adopted Roll Call 671
Clarke Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Commerce and Small Business
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 353
Third Reading Passed
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