Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

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1	1	1.1 A bill for an act
2	2	1.2 relating to unemployment insurance; providing for additional benefits.
3	3	1.3BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
4	4	1.4 Section 1. IRON ORE MINING ADDITIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
5	5	1.5PROGRAM.
6	6	1.6 Subdivision 1.Availability of additional benefits.Additional unemployment benefits
7	7	1.7are available from the Minnesota unemployment insurance trust fund to an applicant who
8	8	1.8was laid off due to lack of work after May 19, 2025, from:
9	9	1.9 (1) an employer in the iron ore mining industry; or
10	10	1.10 (2) an employer that is providing goods or services to an employer in the iron ore mining
11	11	1.11industry if the applicant was laid off due to the cessation or substantial reduction in operations
12	12	1.12of an employer in the iron ore mining industry as described in clause (1).
13	13	1.13 Subd. 2.Eligibility requirements.An applicant is eligible to receive additional
14	14	1.14unemployment benefits under this section for any week through the week ending May 30,
15	15	1.152026, if:
16	16	1.16 (1) the applicant established a benefit account under Minnesota Statutes, section 268.07,
17	17	1.17with 50 percent or greater of the wage credits from an employer as described in subdivision
18	18	1.181, and has exhausted the maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits available on
19	19	1.19that benefit account; and
20	20	1.20 (2) the applicant meets the same requirements that an applicant for regular unemployment
21	21	1.21benefits must meet under Minnesota Statutes, section 268.069, subdivision 1.
22	22	1Section 1.
23	23	25-05298 as introduced03/27/25 REVISOR SS/CH
24	24	SENATE
25	25	STATE OF MINNESOTA
26	26	S.F. No. 3212NINETY-FOURTH SESSION
27	27	(SENATE AUTHORS: FARNSWORTH, Hauschild and Rarick)
28	28	OFFICIAL STATUSD-PGDATE
29	29	Introduction and first reading04/02/2025
30	30	Referred to Jobs and Economic Development 2.1 Subd. 3.Weekly and maximum amount of additional unemployment benefits.(a)
31	31	2.2The weekly benefit amount of additional unemployment benefits is the same as the weekly
32	32	2.3benefit amount of regular unemployment benefits on the benefit account established in
33	33	2.4subdivision 2, clause (1).
34	34	2.5 (b) The maximum amount of additional unemployment benefits available to an applicant
35	35	2.6under this section is an amount equal to 26 weeks of payment at the applicant's weekly
36	36	2.7additional unemployment benefit amount.
37	37	2.8 (c) If an applicant qualifies for a new regular benefit account that meets the requirements
38	38	2.9of subdivision 4, paragraph (b), before the applicant has been paid additional unemployment
39	39	2.10benefits, and the new regular benefit account meets the requirements of subdivision 2, clause
40	40	2.11(1), the applicant's weekly additional unemployment benefit amount is equal to the weekly
41	41	2.12unemployment benefit amount on the applicant's new regular benefit account.
42	42	2.13 Subd. 4.Qualifying for a new regular benefit account.(a) If, after exhausting the
43	43	2.14maximum amount of regular unemployment benefits available as a result of the layoff under
44	44	2.15subdivision 1, an applicant qualifies for the new regular benefit account under Minnesota
45	45	2.16Statutes, section 268.07, the applicant must apply for and establish the new regular benefit
46	46	2.17account.
47	47	2.18 (b) If the applicant's weekly benefit amount under the new regular benefit account is
48	48	2.19equal to or higher than the applicant's weekly additional unemployment benefit amount, the
49	49	2.20applicant must request unemployment benefits under the new regular benefit account. An
50	50	2.21applicant is ineligible for additional unemployment benefits under this section until the
51	51	2.22applicant has exhausted the maximum amount of unemployment benefits available on the
52	52	2.23new regular benefit account.
53	53	2.24 (c) If the applicant's weekly unemployment benefit amount on the new regular benefit
54	54	2.25account is less than the applicant's weekly benefit amount of additional unemployment
55	55	2.26benefits, the applicant must request additional unemployment benefits. An applicant is
56	56	2.27ineligible for new regular unemployment benefits until the applicant has exhausted the
57	57	2.28maximum amount of additional unemployment benefits available under this section.
58	58	2.29 Subd. 5.Charging of benefits.Additional unemployment benefits paid under this section
59	59	2.30may not be used to compute the future unemployment tax rate of a taxpaying employer and
60	60	2.31may not be charged to the reimbursing account of government or nonprofit employers. This
61	61	2.32exception does not apply to an employer described in subdivision 1, clause (1).
62	62	2Section 1.
63	63	25-05298 as introduced03/27/25 REVISOR SS/CH 3.1 Subd. 6.Eligibility for federal Trade Readjustment Allowance benefits.An applicant
64	64	3.2who has applied and been determined eligible for federal Trade Readjustment Allowance
65	65	3.3benefits is not eligible for additional unemployment benefits under this section.
66	66	3.4 EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.
67	67	3Section 1.
68	68	25-05298 as introduced03/27/25 REVISOR SS/CH