DIGEST
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or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 521 Original 2025 Regular Session Lyons
Abstract: Allows school employees who are employed in any other capacity that is not
instructional, research, or principal administrative to collect unemployment benefits during
the summer term.
Present law provides a list of conditions that provide for when an unemployed individual is
considered eligible to receive unemployment benefits. One of those conditions provided for in
present law is that benefits based on service in employment as defined in present law shall be
payable in the same amount, on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as benefits
payable on the basis of other services except for the following:
(1)Services performed in an instructional, research, or principal administrative capacity for any
educational institution, including institutions of higher education and local public school
systems.
(2)Services performed in any other capacity for an educational institution, including crossing
guards, whether employed by a school board or another political subdivision of the state.
Unless, compensation was denied to the employee and he was not offered an opportunity to
perform services for the educational institution for the following academic year or term.
Proposed law repeals the prohibition on school employees who perform services in any other
capacity for an educational institution, including cross guards. Proposed law otherwise retains
present law.
Present law prohibits all school employees, including those employed by an educational service
agency, from collecting unemployment benefits during a period that is established and is customarily
a vacation period or holiday recess during the academic year or term, if the school employee is
returning to work after the vacation period or holiday recess.
Proposed law repeals the aforementioned prohibition on school employees who are employed in any
other capacity that is not instructional, research, or principal administrative. Proposed law otherwise
retains present law.
Proposed law allows a school employee who is employed in any other capacity that is not
instructional, research, or principal administrative, including cross guards, to collect unemployment
benefits, if he meets eligibility requirements and would have otherwise been eligible to receive
benefits. Proposed law further provides that the claimant can only receive benefits during the summer period between two successive academic terms.
(Amends R.S. 23:1600(6)(a)(iii) and (iv); Adds R.S. 23:1600(9); Repeals R.S. 23:1600(6)(a)(ii))