Unemployment compensation, unemployed individual required to contact an increased number of prospective employers for each week of unemployment claimed; further providing for the meaning of failure to seek or accept suitable work

What it does: Raises the weekly work-search requirement for unemployment benefits from three to five prospective employers in counties of 20,000 or more residents; smaller counties stay at three. Deems missing a scheduled interview or skills test without notice, absent good cause, a failure to seek suitable work. (AI-written summary of the bill; the official record shows the exact version voted)

Question before the chamber: Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended

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