HB 1278 - EMPLOYMENT - Military Spouse Unemployment Benefits - 2021

EMPLOYMENT. Military Spouse Unemployment Benefits

Pre-approved Commissioner, ACOVA, NDVLC, NDNG & TF M.I.N.D.

A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 52-06 and a new subdivision to subsection 1 of section 52-06-02 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to eligibility for unemployment compensation for military spouses.

This bill would...

• Allow for unemployment benefits of a military members spouse who leaves employment voluntarily due to relocation, activation or mobilization of the military member
• Allow up to twelve weeks benefits

HOUSE AMENDMENTS & ACTIONS

• Removed Section 3. Maximum Petential benefits
• Removed relocation due to.."activation, or unit deployment"..
• Added subsection (4) "is a military spouse who voluntarily left the most recent employment to relocate because of permanent change of station orders of the individual's military - connected spouse."
• Committee recommended DO PASS 14-0-0 HJ 689
• PASSED HOUSE 87-4 HJ 787

SENATE AMENDMENTS & ACTIONS

• Received from House 2/22/2021 SJ 705
• Committee recommended DO PASS 6-0-0 SJ 829
• PASSED Senate 46-1 SJ 833
• Signed by Senate President 3/16/2021 SJ 867
• Signed by House Speaker 3/18/2021 HJ 1203

Signed by Governor 3/22/2021 HJ 1241

Fiscal Note: $4,721,519