Kentucky Senate Bill 171 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-14 - to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
Pending: Senate Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 341.380 to reduce the percentage used to set weekly benefit rate, to increase trigger amounts for the trust fund balance as related to the weekly benefits amount; to reduce the number of times to pay weekly benefits from 26 to 20; to tier down payments beginning at 125% of the weekly benefit rate for 5 weeks to 100% for the following 5 weeks then to 75 % for the third 5 weeks and 50% of the weekly benefits for the remainder of the award, except for employees classified as recall employees who receive 100% of the weekly benefit; provide that certain classified employees cannot change classification during benefit year; and if extended benefits have are federal funded, the the secretary may extend the number of times to pay to 26.

AN ACT relating to re-employment assistance.

Sen. Robert Mills [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-14	Senate	to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor (S)
2019-02-12	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/sb171.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/sb171/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb171/LM.pdf