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91_HB3157
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1 AN ACT to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act by
2 changing Section 1506.3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
6 changing Section 1506.3 as follows:
7 (820 ILCS 405/1506.3) (from Ch. 48, par. 576.3)
8 Sec. 1506.3. Fund building rates - Temporary
9 Administrative Funding.
10 A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the
11 following fund building rates shall be in effect for the
12 following calendar years:
13 For each employer whose contribution rate for 1988, 1989,
14 1990, the first, third, and fourth quarters of 1991, 1992,
15 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 any calendar
16 year thereafter would, in the absence of this Section, be
17 0.2% or higher, a contribution rate which is the sum of such
18 rate and 0.4%;
19 For each employer whose contribution rate for the second
20 quarter of 1991 would, in the absence of this Section, be
21 0.2% or higher, a contribution rate which is the sum of such
22 rate and 0.3%;
23 For each employer whose contribution rate for 1996 would,
24 in the absence of this Section, be 0.1% or higher, a
25 contribution rate which is the sum of such rate and 0.4%;
26 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs of this Section
27 or any other provision of this Act, except for the provisions
28 contained in Section 1500 pertaining to rates applicable to
29 employers classified under the Standard Industrial Code, or
30 another classification system sanctioned by the United States
31 Department of Labor and prescribed by the Director by rule,
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1 no employer whose total wages for insured work paid by him
2 during any calendar quarter in 1988 and any calendar year
3 thereafter are less than $50,000 shall pay contributions at a
4 rate with respect to such quarter which exceeds the
5 following: with respect to calendar year 1988, 5%; with
6 respect to 1989 and any calendar year thereafter, 5.4%.
7 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph of this Section,
8 or any other provision of this Act, no employer's
9 contribution rate with respect to calendar years 1993 through
10 1995 shall exceed 5.4% if the employer ceased operations at
11 an Illinois manufacturing facility in 1991 and remained
12 closed at that facility during all of 1992, and the employer
13 in 1993 commits to invest at least $5,000,000 for the purpose
14 of resuming operations at that facility, and the employer
15 rehires during 1993 at least 250 of the individuals employed
16 by it at that facility during the one year period prior to
17 the cessation of its operations, provided that, within 30
18 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1993,
19 the employer makes application to the Department to have the
20 provisions of this paragraph apply to it. The immediately
21 preceding sentence shall be null and void with respect to an
22 employer which by December 31, 1993 has not satisfied the
23 rehiring requirement specified by this paragraph or which by
24 December 31, 1994 has not made the investment specified by
25 this paragraph.
26 B. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for
27 the second quarter of 1991, the contribution rate of each
28 employer as determined in accordance with Sections 1500,
29 1506.1, and subsection A of this Section shall be equal to
30 the sum of such rate and 0.1%; provided that this subsection
31 shall not apply to any employer whose rate computed under
32 Section 1506.1 for such quarter is between 5.1% and 5.3%,
33 inclusive, and who qualifies for the 5.4% rate ceiling
34 imposed by the last paragraph of subsection A for such
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1 quarter. All payments made pursuant to this subsection shall
2 be deposited in the Employment Security Administrative Fund
3 established under Section 2103.1 and used for the
4 administration of this Act.
5 C. Payments received by the Director which are
6 insufficient to pay the total contributions due under the Act
7 shall be first applied to satisfy the amount due pursuant to
8 subsection B.
9 D. All provisions of this Act applicable to the
10 collection or refund of any contribution due under this Act
11 shall be applicable to the collection or refund of amounts
12 due pursuant to subsection B.
13 (Source: P.A. 91-342, eff. 1-1-00.)