HB1249 Summary

• Repeals the alternate base period provision that allowed claimants lacking sufficient base-period wages to substitute the four completed calendar quarters immediately preceding their benefit year, effective for claims filed after July 1, 2009.

• Repeals the partial unemployment benefits provision that allowed insured workers to receive weekly benefits reduced by earnings exceeding 40% of their weekly benefit amount.

• Amends work suitability requirements to clarify that part-time work is considered suitable unless the majority of weeks worked in the eligibility period were from full-time work.

• Expands disqualification exceptions for voluntarily leaving work to include circumstances where an individual moves with a military spouse to a new duty station, and defines "immediate family member" for domestic violence and health-related exceptions as spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, grandchild, or grandparent.

• Changes the disqualification period for refusing suitable work from a fixed eight weeks to continuing until the individual has completed at least 30 days of employment covered by unemployment compensation law in any state or the United States.