Arizona Key Votes
Stages
Family
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation -
Signed
(Executive)
-
April 3, 2012
Title: Expands the Requirements for Unemployment Benefits
Legislation -
Bill Passed
(Senate)
(19-11) -
March 28, 2012
(Key vote)
Title: Expands the Requirements for Unemployment Benefits
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that expands requirements for unemployment benefits.
Highlights:
- Requires an unemployed individual to have engaged in a systematic and sustained effort to find work for at least 4 days of the week and to have made at least 3 work search contacts during that week in order to be eligible to receive unemployment benefits (Sec. 3).
- Requires an individual seeking benefits to have earned at least 390 times the minimum wage in the individual's last 3 months of employment in order to be eligible for benefits, whereas existing law requires an individual to have earned at least $1,500 in the last 3 months of his or her employment (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that individuals become ineligible for unemployment benefits in either of the following situations (Sec. 4):
- An individual fails a drug test conducted by a prospective employer as a condition for employment; or
- An individual refuses, without good reason, to submit to a drug test required by a prospective employer as a condition for employment.
Legislation -
Bill Passed
(House)
(39-17) -
March 1, 2012
(Key vote)
Title: Expands the Requirements for Unemployment Benefits
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that expands requirements for unemployment benefits.
Highlights:
- Requires an unemployed individual to have engaged in a systematic and sustained effort to find work for at least 4 days of the week and to have made at least 3 work search contacts during that week in order to be eligible to receive unemployment benefits (Sec. 3).
- Requires an individual seeking benefits to have earned at least 390 times the minimum wage in the individual's last 3 months of employment in order to be eligible for benefits, whereas existing law requires an individual to have earned at least $1,500 in the last 3 months of his or her employment (Sec. 3).
- Specifies that individuals become ineligible for unemployment benefits in either of the following situations (Sec. 4):
- An individual fails a drug test conducted by a prospective employer as a condition for employment; or
- An individual refuses, without good reason, to submit to a drug test required by a prospective employer as a condition for employment.
Legislation -
Introduced
(House)
-
Jan. 17, 2012
Title: Expands the Requirements for Unemployment Benefits
Sponsors