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Committee adopts substitute to lengthen employer separation-notice period and require electronic transmission to LWC
Summary
Senate Bill 227 was amended and reported by substitute; the substitute removes outdated Hurricane Katrina-era language, extends employer notice of separation to the Louisiana Workforce Commission from 3 to 10 days, and requires electronic transmission of that notice.
The committee adopted a substitute for Senate Bill 227 and reported the measure by substitute on May 14 after the sponsor and Workforce officials agreed on technical cleanups and timing changes.
Senator Cloud presented the substitute, explaining it removes obsolete language dating to 2005 and adjusts the timeline for employer notices of separation to the administrator — the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC). The substitute extends the employer notice period from three days to 10 days and specifies the notice must be transmitted electronically "in uniformity with all the other employer requirements," as the sponsor summarized.
Robert Wooley, Assistant Secretary of Unemployment Insurance Administration, told the committee the department worked with Senator Cloud but had to abandon an earlier incentive approach because of federal constraints on the state unemployment system. Wooley said the LWC continues to explore options during the interim but supported the identified cleanups in the substitute.
The committee adopted the amendment and the substitute by unanimous consent (chair announced "hearing no objection, amendment and substitute is now adopted") and then reported the bill by substitute.
What the substitute does: it removes outdated Katrina-era statutory language, extends the employer notice-of-separation period to 10 days, and requires electronic transmission of that notice to the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
Next steps: The committee reported SB 227 by substitute; the substitute will proceed through the legislative process as the committee-reported version.
