Unemployment Compensation

Passed

P HB 964

Unemployment tax filing; domestic service employees. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to permit employers to pay unemployment taxes and file reports annually, commencing in 2009, for employment of domestic service in the private home of the employer if the quarterly payroll is not more than $5,000. Currently such payments and filings are made quarterly.
Patron - Bulova

P HB 2066

Unemployment compensation; maximum weekly benefit. Increases the maximum weekly benefit from $347 to $363 for claims effective on or after July 1, 2007.
Patron - Nixon

P HB 2272

Electronic filing of employer's reports with the Virginia Employment Commission. Requires employers with 100 or more employees to file quarterly reports electronically commencing January 1, 2009. Currently, employers with 250 or more employees are required to file quarterly reports on a magnetic medium. Any employer required to file electronically who fails to do so without good cause shown shall, unless he has obtained a waiver, be assessed a penalty of $75.
Patron - Purkey

P SB 1056

Special Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund; discretionary expenditures. Increases the maximum amount of discretionary expenditures that may be paid from the Special Unemployment Compensation Administration Fund in any fiscal year from $200,000 to $375,000.
Patron - Watkins

Failed

F HB 2865

Unemployment compensation; exclusion for temporary staffing services. Excludes services provided by an individual in the employ of a temporary staffing service from the definition of "employment" for purposes of unemployment compensation.
Patron - McEachin

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