AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN MILITARY SPOUSES.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5227*
*January Session, 2005*		LCO No. 530

Referred to Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Introduced by:
REP. HAMZY, 78th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN MILITARY SPOUSES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapter 567 of the general statutes be amended to provide benefits to an individual who voluntarily leaves a position when relocating if the reason for the relocation is the individual's spouse is in the military and is reassigned or transferred.

Statement of Purpose:

To provide unemployment benefits to spouses of active duty military personnel who are forced to quit their jobs due to the reassignment or transfer of the active duty spouse.