Full Text of SB1820 102nd General Assembly
SB1820 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB1820 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. David Koehler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 35 ILCS 200/15-190 new | | 820 ILCS 405/408.5 | |
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Amends the Property Tax Code to freeze the tax assessment for electricity generating plants for a period of 5 years beginning the year the electricity generating plant is closed. Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act to authorize additional benefits for individuals whose unemployment or partial unemployment is attributable to a layoff from an electric power plant.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning revenue and employment.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Property Tax Code is amended by adding | 5 | | Section 15-190 as follows: | 6 | | (35 ILCS 200/15-190 new) | 7 | | Sec. 15-190. Electricity generating plant tax assessment | 8 | | freeze. Beginning in the year an electricity generating plant | 9 | | is closed, the closed plant is granted a property tax | 10 | | assessment freeze for a period of 5 years. The amount at which | 11 | | the property tax assessment shall be frozen shall be | 12 | | determined by calculating the average equalized assessed value | 13 | | of the property for the year the plant is closed and the | 14 | | equalized assessed value of the property during the 4 years | 15 | | preceding the year the plant was closed. | 16 | | Section 10. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by | 17 | | changing Section 408.5 as follows: | 18 | | (820 ILCS 405/408.5) | 19 | | Sec. 408.5. Additional benefits. | 20 | | A. Additional benefits shall be available: | 21 | | 1. only with respect to benefit years beginning on or |
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| 1 | | after April 1, 2017 2015 and prior to the effective date of | 2 | | this amendatory Act of the 102nd 99th General Assembly; | 3 | | and | 4 | | 2. to an otherwise eligible individual : (a) who was | 5 | | certified as eligible to apply for adjustment assistance | 6 | | under the federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, on or | 7 | | after January 1, 2015; (b) who has not received the | 8 | | maximum amount of trade readjustment allowances payable to | 9 | | him or her pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of | 10 | | Section 233 of the federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, | 11 | | as a result of the certification referenced in item (a) of | 12 | | this paragraph 2; and (c) whose total or partial | 13 | | unemployment is attributable to a layoff from an electric | 14 | | power plant or coal mine a steel manufacturer . | 15 | | B. An individual shall be eligible to receive additional | 16 | | benefits pursuant to this Section for a week if he or she: (1) | 17 | | has met the requirements of Section 500E of this Act; (2) is an | 18 | | exhaustee; and (3) except when the result would be | 19 | | inconsistent with the provisions of this Section, has | 20 | | satisfied the requirements of this Act for the receipt of | 21 | | regular benefits as that term is defined in Section 409 of this | 22 | | Act. | 23 | | C. For the purposes of this Section, an individual is an | 24 | | exhaustee with respect to a week if: | 25 | | 1. prior to such week: (a) he or she has received, with | 26 | | respect to his or her current benefit year that includes |
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| 1 | | such week, the maximum total amount of benefits to which | 2 | | he or she was entitled under the provisions of Section | 3 | | 403B, and all of the regular benefits (including | 4 | | dependents' allowances) to which he or she had entitlement | 5 | | (if any) on the basis of wages or employment under any | 6 | | other State unemployment compensation law; or (b) he or | 7 | | she has received all the regular benefits available to him | 8 | | or her with respect to his or her current benefit year that | 9 | | includes such week, under this Act and under any other | 10 | | State unemployment compensation law, after a cancellation | 11 | | of some or all of his or her wage credits or the partial or | 12 | | total reduction of his or her regular benefit rights; or | 13 | | (c) his or her benefit year terminated, and he or she | 14 | | cannot meet the qualifying wage requirements of Section | 15 | | 500E of this Act or the qualifying wage or employment | 16 | | requirements of any other State unemployment compensation | 17 | | law to establish a new benefit year which would include | 18 | | such week or, having established a new benefit year that | 19 | | includes such week, he or she is ineligible for regular | 20 | | benefits by reason of Section 607 of this Act or a like | 21 | | provision of any other State unemployment compensation | 22 | | law; and | 23 | | 2. for such week: (a) he or she has no right to | 24 | | benefits or allowances, as the case may be, under the | 25 | | Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the federal Trade Act | 26 | | of 1974, as amended, or such other federal laws as are |
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| 1 | | specified in regulations of the United States Secretary of | 2 | | Labor or other appropriate federal agency; and (b) he or | 3 | | she has not received and is not seeking benefits under the | 4 | | unemployment compensation law of Canada, except that if he | 5 | | or she is seeking such benefits and the appropriate agency | 6 | | finally determines that he or she is not entitled to | 7 | | benefits under such law, this clause shall not apply; and | 8 | | 3. the week for which additional benefits are being | 9 | | claimed is not later than 78 seventy-eight weeks after the | 10 | | end of the individual's benefit year for which benefits | 11 | | can be claimed under this Section. | 12 | | For the purposes of clauses (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of | 13 | | this subsection, an individual shall be deemed to have | 14 | | received, with respect to his or her current benefit year, the | 15 | | maximum total amount of benefits to which he or she was | 16 | | entitled or all of the regular benefits to which he or she had | 17 | | entitlement, or all of the regular benefits available to him | 18 | | or her, as the case may be, even though: (a) as a result of a | 19 | | pending reconsideration or appeal with respect to the | 20 | | "finding" defined in Section 701, or of a pending appeal with | 21 | | respect to wages or employment or both under any other State | 22 | | unemployment compensation law, he or she may subsequently be | 23 | | determined to be entitled to more regular benefits; or (b) by | 24 | | reason of a seasonality provision in a State unemployment | 25 | | compensation law which establishes the weeks of the year for | 26 | | which regular benefits may be paid to individuals on the basis |
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| 1 | | of wages in seasonal employment he or she may be entitled to | 2 | | regular benefits for future weeks but such benefits are not | 3 | | payable with respect to the week for which he or she is | 4 | | claiming additional benefits, provided that he or she is | 5 | | otherwise an exhaustee under the provisions of this subsection | 6 | | with respect to his or her rights to regular benefits, under | 7 | | such seasonality provision, during the portion of the year in | 8 | | which that week occurs; or (c) having established a benefit | 9 | | year, no regular benefits are payable to him or her with | 10 | | respect to such year because his or her wage credits were | 11 | | cancelled or his or her rights to regular benefits were | 12 | | totally reduced by reason of the application of a | 13 | | disqualification provision of a State unemployment | 14 | | compensation law. | 15 | | An individual shall not cease to be an exhaustee with | 16 | | respect to any week solely because he or she meets the | 17 | | qualifying wage requirements of Section 500E for a part of | 18 | | such week. | 19 | | D. The provisions of Section 607 and the waiting period | 20 | | requirements of Section 500D shall not be applicable to any | 21 | | week with respect to which benefits are otherwise payable | 22 | | under this Section. | 23 | | E. With respect to any week payable under this Section, an | 24 | | exhaustee's "weekly additional benefit amount" shall be the | 25 | | same as his or her weekly benefit amount during his or her | 26 | | benefit year which includes such week or, if such week is not |
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| 1 | | in a benefit year, during his or her applicable benefit year, | 2 | | as defined in regulations issued by the United States | 3 | | Secretary of Labor or other appropriate federal agency. If the | 4 | | exhaustee had more than one weekly benefit amount during his | 5 | | or her benefit year, his or her weekly additional benefit | 6 | | amount with respect to such week shall be the latest of such | 7 | | weekly benefit amounts. | 8 | | F. An eligible exhaustee shall be entitled to a maximum | 9 | | total amount of additional benefits equal to the maximum total | 10 | | amount of benefits to which he or she was entitled under | 11 | | Section 403B, plus dependents' allowances, during his or her | 12 | | applicable benefit year, minus the sum of any trade | 13 | | readjustment allowances he or she has received as a result of | 14 | | the certification referenced in item (a) of paragraph 2 of | 15 | | subsection A. | 16 | | G. 1. A claims adjudicator shall examine the first claim | 17 | | filed by an individual who meets the requirements of | 18 | | subsection A and, on the basis of the information in his or her | 19 | | possession, shall make an "additional benefits finding". Such | 20 | | finding shall state whether or not the individual has met the | 21 | | requirement of subsection E of Section 500 of this Act, is an | 22 | | exhaustee and, if so, his or her weekly additional benefit | 23 | | amount and the maximum total amount of additional benefits to | 24 | | which he or she is entitled. The claims adjudicator shall | 25 | | promptly notify the individual of his or her "additional | 26 | | benefits finding", and shall promptly notify the individual's |
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| 1 | | most recent employing unit and the individual's last employer | 2 | | (referred to in Section 1502.1) that the individual has filed | 3 | | a claim for additional benefits. The claims adjudicator may | 4 | | reconsider his or her "additional benefits finding" at any | 5 | | time within 2 years after the close of the individual's | 6 | | applicable benefit year, and shall promptly notify the | 7 | | individual of such reconsidered finding. All of the provisions | 8 | | of this Act applicable to reviews from findings or | 9 | | reconsidered findings made pursuant to Sections 701 and 703 | 10 | | which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this | 11 | | subsection shall be applicable to reviews from additional | 12 | | benefits findings and reconsidered additional benefits | 13 | | findings. | 14 | | 2. If, pursuant to the reconsideration or appeal with | 15 | | respect to a "finding", referred to in subsection C, an | 16 | | exhaustee is found to be entitled to more regular benefits | 17 | | and, by reason thereof, is entitled to more additional | 18 | | benefits, the claims adjudicator shall make a reconsidered | 19 | | additional benefits finding and shall promptly notify the | 20 | | exhaustee thereof. | 21 | | H. Benefits payable pursuant to this Section shall be paid | 22 | | from the unemployment trust fund. | 23 | | I. No employer shall be chargeable for the additional | 24 | | benefits paid under this Section. | 25 | | J. To ensure full compliance and coordination with all | 26 | | applicable federal laws, including, but not limited to, the |
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| 1 | | federal Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the Federal | 2 | | Unemployment Tax Act, and the Social Security Act, the | 3 | | Director shall take any action or issue any regulations | 4 | | necessary in the administration of this Section to ensure that | 5 | | its provisions are so interpreted and applied as to meet the | 6 | | requirements of such federal Act as interpreted by the United | 7 | | States Secretary of Labor or other appropriate Federal agency.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 99-912, eff. 12-19-16.) |
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