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HB 772 Original 2015 Regular Session Tim Burns
Abstract: Provides for judgments in judicial appeals of unemployment compensation cases.
Present law allows any party to the proceedings to seek judicial review of a board of review decision
in unemployment compensation disputes. Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires the executive director of the La. Workforce Commission, acting as the
administrator, who is a party to every proceeding, to file his answer to the petition for review along
with the case records with the court within 60 days of being served. If the administrator fails to file
the required records, the court, upon hearing sufficient evidence, may issue a judgment awarding
payment to the claimant.
Proposed law deletes the requirement that the judgment be made in favor of the claimant when the
administrator fails to timely file the case records and provides that the court may make a judgment
based on the evidence presented.
(Amends R.S. 23:1634(A))