Key Votes
HB 347 - Reduces Unemployment Benefits - Key Vote
Georgia Key Votes
Alisha Morgan voted Nay (Conference Report Vote) on this legislation.
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Stages
- March 29, 2012 House Conference Report Adopted
- March 29, 2012 Senate Conference Report Adopted
- March 29, 2012 House Nonconcurrence Vote Passed
- March 27, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- March 4, 2011 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 23, 2011 Introduced
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Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (House) (98-60) - March 29, 2012 (Key vote)
Vote to adopt a conference report that reduces the length of unemployment benefits.
- Reduces the amount of weeks for state unemployment benefits to a minimum of 14 weeks if the unemployment rate is at or below 6.5 percent, with an additional week being added for each 0.5 percent increase in the unemployment rate up to a maximum of 20 weeks at 9 percent unemployment, beginning July 1st, 2012 (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that the reserve ratio rate used to calculate unemployment taxes will not be increased from January 1 to December 31, 2013 unless 1 of the following occurs (Sec. 2):
- The statewide reserve rate is less than 1.25 percent, whereby the Commissioner of Labor then has the option of imposing an increase of up to 50 percent of the rate; or
- If any funds borrowed by the Commissioner of Laborer from the United States Treasury are unpaid or if the Unemployment Compensation Fund has a balance of less than $1 billion, whereby the Commissioner of Labor is then required to impose an increase of 50 percent of the rate.
Legislation - Conference Report Adopted (Senate) (37-17) - March 29, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Reduces Unemployment Benefits
Vote to adopt a conference report that reduces the length of unemployment benefits.
- Reduces the amount of weeks for state unemployment benefits to a minimum of 14 weeks if the unemployment rate is at or below 6.5 percent, with an additional week being added for each 0.5 percent increase in the unemployment rate up to a maximum of 20 weeks at 9 percent unemployment, beginning July 1st, 2012 (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that the reserve ratio rate used to calculate unemployment taxes will not be increased from January 1 to December 31, 2013 unless 1 of the following occurs (Sec. 2):
- The statewide reserve rate is less than 1.25 percent, whereby the Commissioner of Labor then has the option of imposing an increase of up to 50 percent of the rate; or
- If any funds borrowed by the Commissioner of Laborer from the United States Treasury are unpaid or if the Unemployment Compensation Fund has a balance of less than $1 billion, whereby the Commissioner of Labor is then required to impose an increase of 50 percent of the rate.
Legislation - Nonconcurrence Vote Passed (House) - March 29, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (35-14) - March 27, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (155-0) - March 4, 2011
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 23, 2011
Title: Reduces Unemployment Benefits
Co-sponsors
- Charles Jones Bethel (GA - R)
- John Heard (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Bill Hembree (GA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edward H. Lindsey Jr. (GA - R)
- Howard R. Maxwell (GA - R)
- John Meadows III (GA - R)
- William Quincy Murphy (GA - D)
