2009 House Bill 4951

Revise unemployment insurance business tax assessments

Introduced in the House

May 14, 2009

Introduced by Rep. Roy Schmidt (D-76)

To prohibit the state unemployment agency from combining the layoff experience of two related businesses for purposes of increasing their unemployment insurance tax assessment unless it can prove that the firms have “gamed” the system by engaging in “SUTA dumping,” or transferring employees to newly created or acquired companies with lower state unemployment insurance assessment (tax) rates.

Referred to the Committee on Commerce