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AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.

It became law on Mar 24, 2025.

KY SB 162 · Senate Bill · 2025RS

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Became law
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Senate
Latest action
Mar 24, 2025

What it does

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected unemployment insurance fraud cases to the United States Department of Justice, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the county attorney or Commonwealth's attorney within 30 days of the suspected fraud determination; require that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; do not require a legal disposition finding that the employee or contractor is guilty in order for public agencies to terminate employment; provide that collecting or attempting…

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Mar 24, 2025

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It is law in Kentucky. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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