SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1650

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FRANZ.

                  Read 1st time January 15, 2008 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 288, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to unemployment compensation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 288, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 288.039, to read as follows:

            288.039. Any small business in this state may pay unemployment either directly to a claimant to preclude increases in unemployment insurance or pay a claimant through its unemployment insurance. As used in this section, "small business" means a for-profit enterprise consisting of fewer than one hundred full- or part-time employees.

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