AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
     Amend sections of KRS Chapter 341 to adopt recommendations of the UI Task Force; amend 341.030 to increase the taxable wage base to $9,000 on January 1, 2012 and increase by $300 each year to 2022, not to exceed $12,000; amend KRS 341.096 to revise definition of rate of "insured unemployment rate" by basing it on the weekly average number of weeks claimed for regular benefits; amend KRS 341.270 to require calculation of the unemployment insurance trust fund balance on September 30 rather than December 31 of each year; modify the tax schedule trigger amounts; change the computation date of an employer's reserve ratio and reserve account balance from September 30 to June 30; change the computation date applicable to effective date of rates from October 31 to July 31 of each year; amend KRS 341.275 and 341.277 to impose interest or amounts billed reimbursing employees; amend KRS 341.350 to impose a one week waiting period before benefits payments begin; limit the waiting week period to one per benefit year; make the waiting week compensable at end of the claim; amend KRS 341.380 to provide that on January 1, 2012, the weekly benefit rate shall be 1.1923% of total base period wages; retain and revise limitations on annual benefit increases; amend KRS 341.530 to permit an employer with a negative reserve account balance to make voluntary payments every other year.

     Feb 1-introduced in House
     Feb 2-to Labor & Industry (H); posting waived
     Feb 4-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 5-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 8, 2010
     Feb 8-3rd reading, passed 97-0
     Feb 9-received in Senate
     Feb 11-to State & Local Government (S)
     Mar 23-taken from committee; 1st reading; returned to State & Local Government (S)
     Mar 24-taken from committee; 2nd reading; returned to State & Local Government (S)