2013 Senate Bill 720

Increase unemployment benefits

Introduced in the Senate

Dec. 12, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Tupac Hunter (D-5)

To repeal the 2011 law that reduced from 26 weeks to 20 weeks the maximum period a person is eligible for state unemployment benefits. That law was part of a package responding to a $3.8 billion debt this state had had incurred due to borrowing from the federal government to pay-out benefits boosted by higher unemployment and a 2002 law that boosted benefit levels.

Referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring, and Reinventing