Adds to existing law to establish procedures to verify the integrity of the employment security program.
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY PROGRAM -- Adds to existing law to establish procedures to verify the integrity of the employment security program.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
The purpose of this legislation is to enhance program integrity for the state's unemployment insurance program. Covid-19 brought mass employment. Unfortunately, it also brought massive amounts of waste, fraud and abuse to our nations' employment programs. Nationally it is estimates that unemployment programs may have lost between$87billionto$400billiontofraudulentorwastefulclaims. ThislegislationwillrequiretheDepartment of Labor to perform routine cross checks of existing databases to which the state already has access, like new hire records, death records, prison roles, and others.
HOW THEY VOTED
House Third Reading
YEA (69)
NAY (0)
ABSENT / NOT VOTING (1)
Senate Third Reading
YEA (35)
NAY (0)
LATEST ACTION
Reported Signed by Governor on April 3, 2023 Session Law Chapter 250 Effective: 07/01/2023
BILL INFO
- Session
- 2023
- Chamber
- house
- Status date
- Apr 6, 2023