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Senate Commerce gives due-pass recommendation to bill that tightens unemployment-insurance fraud penalties and creates identity-theft offense
Summary
House Bill 53, presented by Idaho Department of Labor Director Janie Revere, would redefine key fraud standards, increase disqualification periods for repeat offenders, create a misdemeanor threshold under $1,000 and establish a crime and restitution for UI identity theft; the committee voted to send the bill to the Senate floor with a due-pass.
Janie Revere, director of the Idaho Department of Labor, told the Senate Commerce Committee that House Bill 53 updates Idaho law governing unemployment insurance (UI) overpayments and fraud. "When we find someone has received benefits that they were not entitled to, an overpayment is created," Revere said, and the bill is intended to clarify definitions and align statutory penalties with the department's practice.
Revere said the bill makes four principal changes. First, it separates and codifies definitions of "knowingly" and "willfully," adopting a definition of "willful" based on an Idaho…
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