Unemployment Compensation

Passed

P HB567

Unemployment compensation; maximum weekly benefit. Increases the maximum weekly benefit from $330 to $347 for claims effective on or after July 3, 2006.
Patron - Nixon

Failed

F HB144

Unemployment compensation; benefit disqualification. Disqualifies a public school teacher for unemployment compensation benefits if the individual's teaching contract is not renewed as a result of a failure to comply with the school board's licensure or certification requirements.
Patron - Cole

F HB282

Unemployment compensation; effect of failure to maintain employment records. Eliminates a presumption, established pursuant to Virginia Employment Commission regulation 16 VAC 5-32-10, in favor of the party making an allegation. The presumption arises when an employer fails to maintain work records with respect to an individual in its employ. The bill eliminates this presumption only in situations where the employer is a staffing service or professional service organization that is contractually prohibited from interfacing with the entity to which the employee is assigned.
Patron - Spruill

F HB932

Pre-clearance drug testing program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to prepare a plan for a voluntary pre-clearance program for drug-free employees. The program will allow participants to be tested for illegal substance use at the expense of the Commonwealth, and those who pass the test would be referred to employers who have notified the Commission that passing a drug screening test is a condition for employment. The Commission is required to complete its plan by November 30, 2006.
Patron - Nutter

F SB247

Unemployment compensation; quit to follow military spouse. Provides that good cause for leaving employment exists if an employee voluntarily leaves a job to accompany the employee's spouse, who is on active duty in the military or naval services of the United States, to a new military-related assignment established pursuant to a permanent change of duty order from which the employee's place of employment is not reasonably accessible and is located in a state that, pursuant to statute, does not deem a person accompanying a military spouse as a person leaving work voluntarily without good cause. Benefits paid to qualifying claimants shall be charged against the pool rather than against the claimant's employer. The measure will take effect if the federal government appropriates adequate funds to pay benefits under this provision.
Patron - Ticer

F SB382

Carried Over

C HB964

Unemployment tax filing; domestic service employees. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to permit employers to pay unemployment taxes and file reports annually, commencing in 2007, if they employ individuals who perform only domestic service and have a quarterly payroll of not more than $2,500. Currently such payments and filings are made quarterly.
Patron - Bulova

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