1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to unemployment insurance; providing for extended unemployment 
1.3 	benefits under certain circumstances;amending Minnesota Statutes 2007 
1.4 	Supplement, section 268.115, subdivision 1.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2007 Supplement, section 268.115, subdivision 1, 
1.7 	is amended to read:
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. The terms used in this section have the following 
1.9 	meaning:
1.10 	(1) "Extended unemployment benefit period" means a period that lasts for a 
1.11 	minimum of 13 weeks and that:
1.12 	(i) Begins with the third week after there is a state "on" indicator; and
1.13 	(ii) Ends with the third week after there is a state "off" indicator.
1.14 	No extended unemployment benefit period may begin before the 14th week 
1.15 	following the end of a prior extended unemployment benefit period.
1.16 	(2) There is a "state 'on' indicator" for a week if:
1.17 	(i) for that week and the prior 12 weeks, the rate of insured unemployment:
1.18 	(a) equaled or exceeded 120 percent of the average of the rates for the corresponding 
1.19 	13-week period ending in each of the prior two calendar years, and was five percent or 
1.20 	more; or
1.21 	(b) equaled or exceeded six percent; or
1.22 	(ii) for that week and the prior 12 weeks the rate of seasonally adjusted 
1.23 	unemployment equaled or exceeded 113 percent of the average of the seasonally adjusted 
1.24 	unemployment rates for the corresponding 12-week period in the prior calendar year; or
2.1 	(iii) The United States Secretary of Labor determines that the average rate of 
2.2 	seasonally adjusted total unemployment in Minnesota for the most recent three months 
2.3 	for which data is published equals or exceeds 6.5 percent and this rate equals or exceeds 
2.4 	110 percent of the rate of the corresponding three-month period in either of the prior 
2.5 	two calendar years.
2.6 	(3) There is a "state 'off' indicator" for a week if:
2.7 	(i) under clause (2)(i), for that week and the prior 12 weeks, the requirements for a 
2.8 	"state 'on' indicator" are not satisfied; or
2.9 	(ii) under clause (2)(ii) the requirements for a "state 'on' indicator" are not satisfied.
2.10 	(4) "Rate of insured unemployment," means the percentage derived by dividing the 
2.11 	average weekly number of applicants filing continued requests for regular unemployment 
2.12 	benefits in the most recent 13-week period by the average monthly covered employment 
2.13 	for the first four of the last six completed calendar quarters before the end of that 13-week 
2.14 	period.
2.15 	(5) "Regular unemployment benefits" means unemployment benefits available to 
2.16 	an applicant other than extended unemployment benefits and additional unemployment 
2.17 	benefits.
2.18 	(6) "Eligibility period" for an applicant means the period consisting of the weeks 
2.19 	remaining in the applicant's benefit year within the extended unemployment benefit period 
2.20 	and, if the benefit year ends within the extended unemployment benefit period, any weeks 
2.21 	in the extended unemployment benefit period.
2.22 	(7) "Exhaustee" means an applicant who, in the eligibility period:
2.23 	(i) the benefit year having not expired has received the maximum amount of regular 
2.24 	unemployment benefits that were available under section 268.07; or 
2.25 	(ii) the benefit year having expired, has insufficient wage credits to establish a new 
2.26 	benefit account; and 
2.27 	has no right to any type of unemployment benefits under any other state or federal laws 
2.28 	and is not receiving unemployment benefits under the law of Canada.

2.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section if effective the day following final enactment.