2020 House Bill 5882

Ease unemployment benefits job search requirements

Introduced in the House

June 23, 2020

Introduced by Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D-53)

To exempt an individual collecting unemployment insurance benefits from the duty to seek work during a declared emergency like the coronavirus epidemic if the individual is sick, quarantined, at risk, taking care of infected relative, has tested positive, or if his or her workplace has closed.

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations