2021 Senate Bill 175

Ease unemployment benefits recpient equirements

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 24, 2021

Introduced by Sen. Erika Geiss (D-6)

To exempt an individual collecting unemployment insurance benefits from the duty to seek work and other requirements during a declared emergency like the coronavirus epidemic if the individual is sick, quarantined, at risk, taking care of infected relative, has tested positive, or if his or her workplace has closed.

Referred to the Committee on Economic and Small Business Development