UNEMPLOYMENT-RECOUPMENT WAIVER House SponsorsRep. Suzanne Ness and Joyce Mason 1/10/2023HouseSession Sine Die 820 ILCS 405/900from Ch. 48, par. 490 Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that if an individual's benefit year begins on or after March 8, 2020, but before the week following the last week of a disaster period established by the gubernatorial disaster proclamations in response to COVID-19, recovery by suit in the name of the People of the State of Illinois or recoupment from benefits payable to an individual for any week shall be permanently waived if the sum was received by the individual without fault on his or her part. Provides that, in cases of such permanent waiver of recovery or recoupment, the Director of Employment Security may not request the Comptroller or the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold a sum of benefits for which an individual is found to be ineligible. Effective immediately. 2/18/2021HouseFiled with the Clerk by Rep. Suzanne Ness 2/19/2021HouseFirst Reading 2/19/2021HouseReferred to Rules Committee 3/9/2021HouseAssigned to Labor & Commerce Committee 3/17/2021HouseTo Wage Policy & Study Subcommittee 3/18/2021HouseAdded Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason 3/27/2021HouseRule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee 1/10/2023HouseSession Sine Die