AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS - EMPLOYMENT SECURITY - BENEFITS (Increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit rate to the higher of fifty-seven and one-half percent (57.5%) of the average weekly wages paid to the workers in the prior calendar year or six hundred thirty-six dollars ($636) per week.)
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2019
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 1, 2019
Last action Feb 6, 2019
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
1
Committee
1
Feb 6, 2019
Legislature · Passed
02/06/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
legislature
Feb 1, 2019
Introduced
02/01/2019 Introduced, referred to House Labor
lower
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Carol McEntee
DDemocratic
P
DP
Daniel P. McKiernan
DDemocratic
P
JS
Joseph S. Almeida
DDemocratic
P
Robert Craven
DDemocratic
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