Bill Text: NJ S3063 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Concerns eligibility for extended unemployment benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-16 - Substituted by A4852 (2R) [S3063 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-S3063-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 3063

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED OCTOBER 19, 2020

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH F. VITALE

District 19 (Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Concerns eligibility for extended unemployment benefits.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on November 12, 2020, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning extended unemployment benefits and amending P.L.1970, c.324.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   Section 7 of P.L.1970, c.324 (C.43:21-24.13) is amended to read as follows:

      7.   An individual shall be eligible to receive extended benefits with respect to any week of unemployment in [his] the individual's eligibility period only if the division finds, that with respect to that week, the individual:

      a.   [he] is an "exhaustee" as defined in paragraph j. of section 5 of P.L.1970, c.324 (C.43:21-24.11); and

      b.   [he] has satisfied the requirements of this act for the receipt of regular benefits that are applicable to individuals claiming extended benefits, including not being subject to a disqualification for the receipt of benefits; and

      c.   [he,] for any initial claim for extended benefits effective after September 25, 1982 and before ¹[November 8, 2020] June 28, 2020¹, has established entitlement for [his] the individual's applicable benefit year based on the alternative earnings requirement specified in subsection (e) of R.S. 43:21-4, and was paid wages during the base year of ¹[his] the individual's¹ applicable benefit year which equaled or exceeded ¹[forty] 40¹ times ¹[his] the individual's¹ weekly benefit rate; and

      d.   for any initial claim for extended benefits effective after ¹[November 7, 2020] June 27, 2020¹, has established entitlement for the individual's applicable benefit year based on the alternative earnings requirement specified in subsection (e) of R.S. 43:21-4¹[, and:

      (1)]   or¹ was paid wages during the base year of the individual's applicable benefit year which equaled or exceeded ¹[forty] 40¹ times the individual's weekly benefit rate¹[; or

      (2)   was paid wages during that base year which equaled or exceeded 1 1/2 times the individual's wages paid during the calendar quarter of the base year in which the individual's wages were highest; or

      (3)   had 20 full-time weeks of employment during that base year]¹.

(cf: P.L.1982, c.144, s.2)

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.