UNEMPLOYMENT COMP: Provides relative to employer contributions. (8/1/25) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
This bill (SB 248) updates Louisiana's unemployment compensation rules for employers. It requires the unemployment administrator to send employers a quarterly statement showing benefits charged to their experience-rating record (which affects their future unemployment tax rate) within 90 days of each quarter's end, with a 30-day window to contest errors. It also mandates employers to submit a "notice of separation" to the administrator within 10 days for any employee leaving who might be disqualified from benefits, including the reason for separation and payment details. These changes directly affect Louisiana employers who pay unemployment taxes and must comply with new reporting and notice requirements.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
House Passage
Jun 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced May 19, 2025
Signed Jun 11, 2025
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This bill amends Louisiana unemployment compensation laws to extend an exemption from experience-rating charges to benefits paid under three specific executive orders related to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It also modifies the deadline for employers to submit separation notices, extending the time to transmit them electronically to ten days while keeping the requirement to mail them to the employee at three ten days.
Scope change
The bill expands the scope of the experience-rating exemption to include benefits paid under Executive Orders KBB 2005-46 and KBB 2005-76, in addition to the previously covered Executive Order KBB 2005-34.
ELIGIBILITY
Benefits paid under Executive Orders KBB 2005-46 and KBB 2005-76 are now explicitly exempt from being charged to employers' experience-rating records, alongside the existing exemption for Executive Order KBB 2005-34.
TIMELINE
The deadline for employers to electronically transmit separation notices to the administrator was changed from three days to ten days after the separation occurred.
REQUIREMENT
The requirement to mail or deliver separation notices to the separated employee remains at three ten days after separation, while the electronic transmission to the agency deadline was extended.
Floor votes · Senate May 21, 2025 · House Jun 4, 2025
How they voted
34–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 37
May 21, 2025
D
Democratic11
72% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
3
Committee
2
Amendments
1
Jun 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Jun 2, 2025
Introduced
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
May 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
May 27, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.
lower
May 21, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Heather Cloud
RRepublican
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