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Committee backs bill to fold major unemployment-insurance rules into Idaho statute
Summary
House Bill 54 would move large portions of Department of Labor rules into statute (eliminating an estimated 65% of rules), create six new statutory sections and amend 24 others to make core UI requirements explicit in law; the Senate Commerce Committee recommended the bill for passage by voice vote.
Janie Revere, director of the Idaho Department of Labor, told the Senate Commerce Committee that House Bill 54 would codify significant portions of existing department rules into statute to improve clarity and keep program requirements in a single location.
Revere said the measure responds to two recent legislative changes: a requirement that agencies consider moving rule language to statute when appropriate, and a change in judicial interpretation of agency rules. She said the department rarely changes…
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