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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 99
BY SENATOR MARTINY
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. Provides relative to the state's unemployment and
employment programs. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 23:1602(2), relative to fostering the integration of the state's2
unemployment and employment service programs; to provide for approved training3
compatible with the receipt of unemployment benefits to include training toward4
undergraduate and graduate degrees; and to provide for related matters.5
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:6
Section 1. R.S. 23:1602(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:7
ยง1602. Denial of benefits to individuals taking approved training prohibited;8
ineligibility of certain students; benefits payable to individuals taking9
approved training not to be charged to experience rating record of10
base period employers11
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(2) An individual, except as provided in Subsection (1) of this section, will13
be deemed unavailable for work in any week in which it is found that the individual14
is attending a regularly established school, college, university, hospital, or training15
school (excluding, however, night school or part-time training courses, vocational16
technical schools and apprenticeship classes), or is in any vacation period intervening17 SB NO. 99
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between regular school terms during which he is a student of any such regularly1
established educational institution, hospital, or training school. However, these2
provisions do not apply to any individual who, subsequent to his enrollment in and3
while attending a regularly established school, has been regularly employed and4
upon becoming unemployed makes an effort to secure work and holds himself5
available for suitable work with his last employer, or holds himself available for any6
other employment deemed suitable. If it is found that any individual received7
benefits who was not eligible therefor by reason of having resumed the status of a8
student at the end of a vacation period, such individual will be liable to repay a sum9
equal to the benefits thus received. Approval of training under this Section shall10
not be denied solely on the basis that it does not develop a particular identified11
vocational skill, that the training is full-time, that the training exceeds a12
particular number of hours per week, that the training requires more than a13
particular period of time to complete, that the training leads to or may be14
credited to the completion of an undergraduate or graduate degree, or that the15
training is taken primarily for the purpose of obtaining such a degree.16
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Mary Dozier O'Brien.
DIGEST
Present law provides that a person, except in specific circumstances, will be deemed
ineligible for unemployment benefits for any week in which the person was doing either of
the following:
1. Regularly attending a regularly established school, college, university, hospital, or
training school, except night school.
2. Is in any vacation period between school terms.
Present law provides that this provision does not apply to a person who, subsequent to his
enrollment in and while attending a regularly established school, has been regularly
employed and upon becoming unemployed makes himself available for work, either with
his former employer or a new employer.
Present law provides that if it is found that any person received benefits who was not eligible
therefor by reason of having resumed the status of a student at the end of a vacation period,
such person will be liable to repay a sum equal to all the benefits paid. SB NO. 99
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Proposed law removes all present law.
Proposed law provides that approval of training shall not be denied solely on the basis of any
of the following:
1. Training does not develop a particular identified vocational skill.
2. Training is full-time.
3. Training exceeds a specified number of hours per week.
4. Training requires more than a specified period of time to complete.
5. Training leads to or may be credited to the completion of an undergraduate or
graduate degree.
6. Training is taken primarily for the purpose of obtaining such a degree.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Amends R.S. 23:1602(2))