HB121 Summary

• Amends Section 25-4-78 of the Alabama Code to create an exception to unemployment disqualification for spouses of active duty military members who voluntarily quit work to relocate.

• Allows spouses to receive unemployment benefits when they leave employment due to their active duty spouse's permanent change of station orders, activation orders, or unit deployment orders.

• Specifies that when this exception applies, benefits paid to the relocating spouse are not charged to the employer's experience rating account.

• Effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor, or upon otherwise becoming law.