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 1        AN ACT concerning unemployment insurance.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
 5    changing Section 1506.3 as follows:

 6        (820 ILCS 405/1506.3) (from Ch. 48, par. 576.3)
 7        Sec.   1506.3.    Fund   building   rates   -   Temporary
 8    Administrative Funding.
 9        A.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,  the
10    following  fund  building  rates  shall  be in effect for the
11    following calendar years:
12        For each employer whose contribution rate for 1988, 1989,
13    1990, the first, third, and fourth quarters  of  1991,  1992,
14    1993,  1994,  1995,  and 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 any
15    calendar year  thereafter  would,  in  the  absence  of  this
16    Section,  be 0.2% or higher, a contribution rate which is the
17    sum of such rate and 0.4%;
18        For each employer whose contribution rate for the  second
19    quarter  of  1991  would,  in the absence of this Section, be
20    0.2% or higher, a contribution rate which is the sum of  such
21    rate and 0.3%;
22        For each employer whose contribution rate for 1996 would,
23    in  the  absence  of  this  Section,  be  0.1%  or  higher, a
24    contribution rate which is the sum of such rate and 0.4%;
25        Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs of this  Section
26    or any other provision of this Act, except for the provisions
27    contained  in  Section 1500 pertaining to rates applicable to
28    employers classified under the Standard Industrial  Code,  or
29    another classification system sanctioned by the United States
30    Department  of  Labor and prescribed by the Director by rule,
31    no employer whose total wages for insured work  paid  by  him
 
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 1    during  any  calendar  quarter  in 1988 and any calendar year
 2    thereafter are less than $50,000 shall pay contributions at a
 3    rate  with  respect  to  such  quarter  which   exceeds   the
 4    following:  with  respect  to  calendar  year  1988, 5%; with
 5    respect to 1989 and any calendar year thereafter, 5.4%.
 6        Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph of this  Section,
 7    or   any   other   provision   of  this  Act,  no  employer's
 8    contribution rate with respect to calendar years 1993 through
 9    1995 shall exceed 5.4% if the employer ceased  operations  at
10    an  Illinois  manufacturing  facility  in  1991  and remained
11    closed at that facility during all of 1992, and the  employer
12    in 1993 commits to invest at least $5,000,000 for the purpose
13    of  resuming  operations  at  that facility, and the employer
14    rehires during 1993 at least 250 of the individuals  employed
15    by  it  at  that facility during the one year period prior to
16    the cessation of its operations,  provided  that,  within  30
17    days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993,
18    the  employer makes application to the Department to have the
19    provisions of this paragraph apply to  it.   The  immediately
20    preceding  sentence shall be null and void with respect to an
21    employer which by December 31, 1993  has  not  satisfied  the
22    rehiring  requirement specified by this paragraph or which by
23    December 31, 1994 has not made the  investment  specified  by
24    this paragraph.
25        B.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this Act, for
26    the second quarter of 1991, the  contribution  rate  of  each
27    employer  as  determined  in  accordance  with Sections 1500,
28    1506.1, and subsection A of this Section shall  be  equal  to
29    the  sum of such rate and 0.1%; provided that this subsection
30    shall not apply to any employer  whose  rate  computed  under
31    Section  1506.1  for  such  quarter is between 5.1% and 5.3%,
32    inclusive, and  who  qualifies  for  the  5.4%  rate  ceiling
33    imposed  by  the  last  paragraph  of  subsection  A for such
34    quarter.  All payments made pursuant to this subsection shall
 
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 1    be deposited in the Employment Security  Administrative  Fund
 2    established   under   Section   2103.1   and   used  for  the
 3    administration of this Act.
 4        C.  Payments  received  by   the   Director   which   are
 5    insufficient to pay the total contributions due under the Act
 6    shall  be first applied to satisfy the amount due pursuant to
 7    subsection B.
 8        D.  All  provisions  of  this  Act  applicable   to   the
 9    collection  or  refund of any contribution due under this Act
10    shall be applicable to the collection or  refund  of  amounts
11    due pursuant to subsection B.
12    (Source: P.A. 91-342, eff. 1-1-00.)

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