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Committee OKs bill to put disaster unemployment waivers into law
Summary
The Finance, Ways, and Means Committee passed House Bill 6002 to place disaster-era unemployment waivers into statute so state officials can act without an executive order; the measure passed the committee 26-0 and goes to calendar and rules.
The Finance, Ways and Means Committee on Jan. 28 approved House Bill 6002, a measure that would codify temporary unemployment-waiver authority for use in declared disaster areas so state officials can waive certain unemployment requirements without a separate executive order.
Sponsor Representative Cochran told the committee the bill is intended to “cut[] some, some bureaucratic red tape” and to let the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development “waive certain unemployment requirements during states of…
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