HB 542-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0379
05/06
HOUSE BILL542-FN
AN ACTrelative to weekly benefit amounts for unemployment compensation.
SPONSORS:Rep. MacKenzie, Hills. 40; Sen. Long, Dist 20; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21
COMMITTEE:Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill updates the weekly benefit amount for total unemployment and the maximum total amount of benefits payable during any benefit year.
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Explanation:Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0379
05/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTrelative to weekly benefit amounts for unemployment compensation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Unemployment Compensation; Weekly Benefit Amount; Maximum Total Amount of Benefits. RSA 282-A:25 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
282-A:25 Weekly Benefit Amount for Total Unemployment and Maximum Total Amount of Benefits Payable During any Benefit Year. The maximum weekly benefit amount and maximum benefits payable to an eligible individual, whose benefit year begins on or after the effective date of this section, shall be determined by the individual's annual earnings. In each of 2 calendar quarters, the individual must have earned not less than $1,400, as follows:
Annual Earnings of Maximum Weekly
Not Less Than Benefit Amount Maximum Benefits
$2,80032$832
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2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBA
25-0379
1/9/25
HB 542-FN- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACTrelative to weekly benefit amounts for unemployment compensation.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from NH Employment Security. The Department was contacted on 12/16/24 for a fiscal note worksheet. When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
NH Employment Security