42 Relating to: payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods in this state.

Date of enactment: August 3, 2011
2011 Senate Bill 147 Date of publication*: August 4, 2011

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 42

An Act to amend 108.141 (1) (f) 3. b.; and to create 108.141 (1) (f) 4. of the statutes; relating to: payment of extended unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods in this state.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 2 . 108.141 (1) (f) 3. b. of the statutes is amended to read:

108.141 (1) (f) 3. b. The average rate of total unemployment in this state, seasonally adjusted, as determined by the U.S. secretary of labor for the period consisting of the most recent 3 months for which data for all states are published before the close of that week equals or exceeds 110 percent of the average for either or both of the corresponding 3-month periods ending in the 2 preceding calendar years . ; or

Section 3 . 108.141 (1) (f) 4. of the statutes is created to read:

108.141 (1) (f) 4. With respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after the date of enactment of P.L. 111-312 and ending on or before the earlier of the latest date permitted under federal law or the end of the 4th week prior to the last week in which federal sharing is provided as authorized by section 2005 (a) of P.L. 111-5 and any amendments to such federal laws:

a. The rate of insured unemployment for the period consisting of that week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks equaled or exceeded 120 percent of the average of such rates for the corresponding 13-week periods ending in each of the preceding 3 calendar years, and equaled or exceeded 5 percent; or

b. The average rate of total unemployment, seasonally adjusted, as determined by the U.S. secretary of labor, for the period consisting of the most recent 3 months for which data for all states are published before the close of that week equals or exceeds 6.5 percent and equals or exceeds 110 percent of the average for any of the corresponding 3-month periods ending in the preceding 3 calendar years.

Section 4 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies retroactively with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after December 17, 2010.