COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE AND RETIREMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2173
(Reference to printed bill)
Page 2, line 25, strike "A BASE-PERIOD" insert "An"
Line 26, strike "BENEFITS PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL" insert "a payment from the unemployment compensation fund"
Strike line 27
Line 28, strike "1."
Line 30, strike the period
Line 31, strike "2." insert "and"
Line 32, after the period insert "For the purposes of this subsection:
1. "Adequately" means the information provided by the employer or its agent provides sufficient facts to enable the department to make the correct determination under this chapter.
2. "Pattern" means an employer or an employer's agent failing to respond timely and adequately, if:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d) of this paragraph, an employer with fewer than one hundred employees has failed to respond timely and adequately on five or more occasions.
(b) Except as provided in subdivision (d) of this paragraph, an employer with one hundred or more employees but fewer than five hundred employees has failed to timely and adequately respond on ten or more occasions.
(c) Except as provided in subdivision (d) of this paragraph, an employer with five hundred or more employees has failed to timely and adequately respond on fifteen or more occasions.
(d) The employer uses an agent and the agent has failed to timely and adequately respond on ten or more occasions while representing any employer. A pattern of failing to respond timely and adequately is established for all employers represented by an agent that has failed to timely and adequately respond on ten or more occasions.
3. "Timely" means within the time specified in subsection D or E of this section for an employer or its agent to supply a response to the department's notice to an employer of a claim for benefits, or if the response is insufficient, within forty-eight hours after the department's request for supplemental information."
Amend title to conform