Senate Engrossed House Bill

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015

CHAPTER 211

HOUSE BILL 2347

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 23‑772, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to unemployment insurance.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 23-772, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE23-772.  Claims for benefits; initial claim filing notice to employer; contents of notice; continued claim notice to employer; posting printed statements dealing with claims

A.  Claims for benefits shall be made in accordance with such regulations as the department prescribes.  The department shall require an individual claiming benefits to provide information and documents on which the claim is based at the time of filing the claim.

B.  When an initial claim for benefits is filed, the department shall promptly notify the claimant's most recent employing unit or employer of the claim filing.  The notice shall:

1.  Contain the claimant's stated reason for the claimant's separation from employment.

2.  State that the employer may protest payment to the claimant based on any available statutory grounds by returning the protest not later than ten business days after the date of the notice.

B.  C.  Unless previously notified, all base-period employers of a claimant for benefits shall be promptly notified when a will be sent a notice at the time the claimant files a payable continued claim for benefits during a period of unemployment.

C.  D.  Each employer shall post and maintain printed statements dealing with claims for benefits in places readily accessible to individuals in the employer's service, and shall make available to each individual at the time the individual becomes unemployed a printed statement dealing with claims for benefits.  Printed statements shall be supplied by the department to each employer without cost. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 6, 2015.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 7, 2015.