l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2736

Unemployment benefits; provide eligibility for persons discharged for failure to comply with employer-required vaccine mandate.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Economic and Workforce Development Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 71-5-513, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT DISCHARGE FROM EMPLOYMENT FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH AN EMPLOYER-REQUIRED VACCINE MANDATE SHALL BE GOOD CAUSE FOR PURPOSES OF DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION; TO AMEND SECTION 71-5-507, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS DISCHARGED FROM EMPLOYMENT FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH AN EMPLOYER-REQUIRED VACCINE MANDATE SHALL BE ENTITLED DURING ANY BENEFIT YEAR TO THE ENTIRE AMOUNT OF HIS TOTAL WAGES FOR INSURED WORK PAID DURING HIS BASE PERIOD; TO CREATE A NEW CODE SECTION TO PROVIDE THAT AN EMPLOYER SHALL REIMBURSE THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CLAIMS PAID TO INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE DISCHARGED FROM THE EMPLOYER'S EMPLOYMENT FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH AN EMPLOYER-REQUIRED VACCINE MANDATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

Its course

January 17 to February 1, 2022, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the SenateJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Economic and Workforce DevelopmentJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 17 – Feb 1

  1. Jan 17Referred to the Senate committees on Economic and Workforce Development and on Appropriations
  2. Feb 1Died in committee in the Senate
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 17Referred To Economic and Workforce Development;AppropriationsSenate
  2. Feb 1Died In CommitteeSenate