S704 - COVID-19 Recovery Act . (SL 2020-3)

Overview: Section 1.4 of S.L. 2020-3 enacts three of the four recommendations of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Unemployment Insurance:

• Allows an employer to file a UI claim for an employee (i.e., attached claim) for unemployment due directly to a disaster covered by a federal disaster declaration.
• Clarifies that liens for UI taxes have the same priority as other State tax liens.
• Makes the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Unemployment Insurance a permanent statutory study committee.

This section became effective when the act became law, May 4, 2020.