HOUSE BILL 168
Signed by President
Employment security program
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY PROGRAM – Adds to existing law to establish procedures to verify the integrity of the employment security program.
RS30381 / H0168
The purpose of this legislation is to enhance program integrity for the state's unemployment insurance program. Covid-19 brought mass employment. Unfortunately, it also brought massive amounts of waste, fraud and abuse to our nations' employment programs. Nationally it is estimates that unemployment programs may have lost between $87 billion to $400 billion to fraudulent or wasteful claims. This legislation will require the Department of Labor to perform routine cross checks of existing databases to which the state already has access, like new hire records, death records, prison roles, and others.
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 02/20 | Introduced, read first time, referred to JRA for Printing |
| 02/21 | Reported Printed and Referred to Commerce & Human Resources |
| 02/24 | Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation, Filed for Second Reading |
| 02/27 | Read second time; Filed for Third Reading |
| 02/28 | Read Third Time in Full – PASSED - 69-0-1 AYES – Alfieri, Allgood, Andrus, Barbieri, Berch, Blanksma, Boyle, Bundy, Burns, Cannon, Cheatum, Chew, Clow, Cornilles, Crane(12), Crane(13), Dixon(1), Dixon(24), Durrant, Ehardt, Ehlers, Erickson, Furniss, Galaviz, Gallagher, Gannon, Garner, Green, Handy, Hawkins, Healey, Hill, Holtzclaw, Horman, Kingsley(Crawford), Lambert, Lanting, Manwaring, McCann, Mendive, Mickelsen, Miller, Mitchell, Monks, Nash, Necochea, Nelsen, Palmer, Petzke, Pickett, Price, Raybould, Raymond, Redman, Roberts, Rubel, Sauter, Scott, Shepherd, Skaug, Tanner, Vander Woude, Weber, Wheeler, Wisniewski, Wroten, Yamamoto, Young, Mr. Speaker NAYS – None Absent – Mathias Floor Sponsor - Mitchell Title apvd - to Senate |
| 03/01 | Received from the House passed; filed for first reading |
| Introduced, read first time; referred to: Commerce & Human Resources | |
| 03/16 | Reported out of Committee with Do Pass Recommendation; Filed for second reading |
| 03/17 | Read second time; filed for Third Reading |
| 03/24 | Retained on calendar |
| 03/28 | Read third time in full – PASSED - 35-0-0 AYES – Adams, Anthon, Bernt, Bjerke, Burtenshaw, Carlson, Cook, Den Hartog, Foreman, Grow, Guthrie, Harris, Hart, Hartgen, Herndon, Just, Lakey, Lee, Lenney, Lent, Nichols, Okuniewicz, Rabe, Ricks, Ruchti, Schroeder, Semmelroth, Taylor, Toews, Trakel, VanOrden, Ward-Engelking, Winder, Wintrow, Zuiderveld NAYS – None Absent and excused – None Floor Sponsor - Ricks Title apvd - to House |
| Returned from Senate Passed; to JRA for Enrolling | |
| Reported Enrolled; Signed by Speaker; Transmitted to Senate |