HB5882 Summary

• Adds new eligibility exception during governor-declared infectious disease emergencies allowing individuals to leave employment without disqualification if they are quarantined, self-isolating on medical advice, immunocompromised, caring for a minor with closed schools, or caring for infected family members.

• Specifies that individuals whose workplace closes due to state action during an infectious disease emergency can leave work without losing unemployment benefits eligibility.

• Changes waiver of work-seeking requirements from striking language about "the effective date" to specifying "April 2, 2020" as the operative date.

• Makes minor grammatical corrections including changing "armed forces" to "Armed Forces" and adjusting punctuation in medical leave provisions.

• Removes temporary one-year provision regarding drug testing conditional job offers (previously expiring provisions are deleted).