House File 275 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  HUNTER

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the eligibility of certain individuals
  2    employed by educational institutions for unemployment
  3    insurance benefits between two successive academic years or
  4    terms.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 96.4, subsection 5, paragraph b, Code
  1  2 2015, is amended by striking the paragraph.
  1  3    Sec. 2.  Section 96.4, subsection 5, paragraph c, Code 2015,
  1  4 is amended to read as follows:
  1  5    c.  With respect to services for an educational institution
  1  6 in any capacity under paragraph "a" or "b", benefits shall not
  1  7 be paid to an individual for any week of unemployment which
  1  8 begins during an established and customary vacation period
  1  9 or holiday recess if the individual performs the services in
  1 10 the period immediately before such vacation period or holiday
  1 11 recess, and the individual has reasonable assurance that the
  1 12 individual will perform the services in the period immediately
  1 13 following such vacation period or holiday recess.
  1 14    Sec. 3.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  1 15 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  1 16 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  1 17 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  1 18 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  1 19 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  1 20 to meet all of the state funding=related requirements of
  1 21 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding
  1 22 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act
  1 23 by and enforcement of this Act against all affected school
  1 24 districts.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 27 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 28    Current law provides that an individual is not eligible
  1 29 for unemployment insurance benefits based on service in a
  1 30 capacity that is not an instructional, research, or principal
  1 31 administrative capacity for an educational institution for any
  1 32 week of unemployment that begins during the period between two
  1 33 successive academic years or terms, if the individual performs
  1 34 the services in the first of such academic years or terms and
  1 35 has reasonable assurance that the individual will perform
  2  1 services for the second of such academic years or terms. If
  2  2 the individual is not offered an opportunity to perform the
  2  3 services for an educational institution for the second of
  2  4 such academic years or terms, the individual is entitled to
  2  5 retroactive payments of such benefits.
  2  6    This bill strikes the provision.
  2  7    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  2  8 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of
  2  9 any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  2 10 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  2 11 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  2 12 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate
  2 13 funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.  The
  2 14 inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the
  2 15 requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state
  2 16 mandates included in the bill.
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