B 24-1012 — Constituent Unemployment Compensation Information Temporary Amendment Act of 2022

ENGROSSEDENROLLED ORIGINAL AAN BILLACT 24-1012______________ IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5 _____________________________ 7 To amendamend, on a temporary basis, the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, on a temporary basis, to require the Department of Employment Services to promptly disclose unemployment insurance claim data to the Council upon request in connection with the Council’s official duties when certain conditions have been met.

Any claimant (or his or her legal representative) shall ENGROSSED ORIGINAL be supplied with information from the records of the division, to the extent necessary for the proper presentation of his claim in any proceeding under this Act with respect thereto.

or ENROLLED ORIGINAL “(III) Complied with both sub-subparagraph (I) and (II) of this subparagraph if so required by applicable federal law or regulation;

or “(ii) The request for information, including whether the agency has received an initial application, processed an initial application or weekly certification form, or made a determination as to the individual’s own eligibility, would not require the Director to disclose confidential unemployment compensation information about the individual ENGROSSED ORIGINAL or employing unit that the individual or employing unit has not already provided to the Councilmember.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL “(3) Subject to such restrictions as the Director may by regulation prescribe, the information protected pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection may be made available to any agency of this or any other state, or any federal agency, charged with the administration of an unemployment compensation law or the maintenance of a system of public employment offices, or the agency of any state or the federal agency charged with the administration of programs for food stamps, parent locator services and other support or paternity establishment services, public housing, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Program on Work, Employment, and Responsibility, and supplemental security income, or the Department of Public Welfare of the government of any state, or the National Directory of New Hires established pursuant to section 316(f) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, approved August 22, 1996 (110 Stat.

§ 653a), or any District of Columbia State Directory of New Hires established pursuant to section 313(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, or the United States Accounting Office or the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue, and information obtained in connection with the ENROLLED ORIGINAL administration of the employment service may be made available to persons or agencies for purposes appropriate to the operation of a public employment service.

Upon request therefor, the Director shall furnish to any agency of the United States charged with the administration of public works or assistance through public employment, and may furnish to any state agency similarly charged, the name, address, ordinary occupation, and employment status of each ENGROSSED ORIGINAL recipient of benefits and such recipient’s rights to further benefits under this Act.

The Council adopts the fiscal impact statement of the ChiefBudget FinancialDirector Officer as the fiscal impact statement required by section 4a of the General Legislative Procedures Act of 1975, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat.

(a) This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of Congressionalcongressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat.

______________________________ Chairman Council of the District of Columbia _________________________________ Mayor District of Columbia 3