2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25100541D

SENATE BILL NO. 1057

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled January 7, 2025

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 60.2-226 and 60.2-603 of the Code of Virginia, relating to unemployment insurance; weekly benefit amount; increasing threshold for deduction of wages payable.

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Patron—Ebbin

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 60.2-226 and 60.2-603 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 60.2-226. Unemployment.

A. An individual shall be deemed "unemployed" in any week during which he performs no services and with respect to which no wages are payable to him, or in any week of less than full-time work if the wages payable to him with respect to such week are less than the total of his weekly benefit amount and the income disregard amount specified in § 60.2-603. Wages shall be deemed payable to an individual with respect to any week for which wages are due. An individual's week of unemployment shall be deemed to commence only after his registration at an employment office, except as the Commission may by regulation otherwise prescribe.

B. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, no individual shall be deemed unemployed with respect to any week he earns less than his weekly benefit amount solely because he did not work on a legal holiday as defined in § 2.2-3300.

§ 60.2-603. Weekly benefit for unemployment; income disregard.

A. Each eligible individual who is unemployed in any week shall be paid for such week a benefit equal to his weekly benefit amount less any part of the wages payable to him for such week which that is in excess of $50 $100. Where such excess is not a multiple of $1, it shall be computed to the next highest multiple of $1.

B. Wages earned on a shift commencing Saturday and ending Sunday shall be allocated to the week in which the claimant earns the majority of wages for such work.