| This bill provides access to unemployment compensation |
| benefits for persons who must restrict their work hours to part- |
| time for good cause. It permits individuals who must leave work |
| because of lack of child care or transportation to receive |
| unemployment compensation benefits. It eliminates the |
| restriction on unemployment benefits for seasonal workers. It |
| increases the taxable wage base to $16,000 while adopting an |
| array system to more equitably distribute tax rates among |
| employers and to help address the system's solvency problems. |
| Finally, the bill corrects format. |
