Bill
HB 2565
Illinois HB 2565 limits unemployment disqualification for labor disputes to 2 weeks; after that period, workers are eligible again even if the dispute continues.
Note on sources and scope
- The materials provided contain text from two different bills both labeled “HB 2565”: (1) an Arizona House bill amending A.R.S. §16-550 (election procedures for early/mail ballots), and (2) an Illinois bill amending the Unemployment Insurance Act (820 ILCS 405/604) concerning labor disputes. The bill title supplied (“UNEMPLOYMENT INS-LABOR DISPUTE”) matches the Illinois content, while sponsors and some procedural entries correspond to Arizona. Below is a concise, objective summary of each measure and the likely effects of the principal provisions.
Purpose
- Revise how counties handle early/mail ballot signature verification and cure; require more detailed reporting to political parties; restrict early release of aggregated early-vote results; require public posting of certain election system log files and provide an early-ballot tracking system.
Key provisions
- Signature verification and cure:
- Compare envelope signature to registration signature; if inconsistent, make reasonable efforts to contact the voter.
- Allow signature “corrections” up to the fifth business day after primary/general/special elections that include federal offices; third business day after other elections.
- If signature is missing, allow voter to add signature by 7:00 p.m. on election day.
- For federal-office elections, county recorder and cooperating city/town clerks’ offices must be open during business hours (minimum 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.) on the Friday and weekend before and after the election to allow curing.
- Reporting to qualified political parties:
- Beginning with the first missing/mismatched signature identified after early voting starts through the Monday immediately before the election, county recorders must submit daily lists to qualified political parties of voters whose signatures are missing or inconsistent.
- From the Wednesday after the election through the end of the cure period, daily lists must include all voters with inconsistent signatures and all voters who cast conditional provisional ballots — including voter information ordinarily provided under A.R.S. §16-168 and explicitly the voter’s precinct designation.
- Tabulation and results controls:
- Early processing/tabulation may begin after affidavit/envelope processing, but until election day the early election board/recorder must not access or produce aggregated complete-results files and must not publicly release complete or partial results until all precincts report or one hour after polls close, whichever is earlier.
- County must post system log files and similar election-management files on its website within 48 hours after all ballot tabulation is complete.
- Other:
- County recorder must send list of all voters issued early ballots to each precinct’s election board.
- County must provide an early-ballot tracking system on its website showing receipt and verification/tabulation/rejection status.
Affected parties
- Voters using early/mail ballots (privacy and access implications)
- County recorders and local election offices (additional reporting, website posting, office-hours obligations)
- Political parties qualified for continued representation on the state ballot (receive daily lists of voters with signature issues, including addresses and precincts)
- Election boards and early election staff (operational constraints on data access and results release)
Potential impacts and issues
- Administrative burden on counties (daily reporting, log posting, tracking system).
- Privacy concerns: expanded disclosure of voter information (address and precinct assignment) to political parties during cure period could raise confidentiality and voter-intimidation concerns.
- May increase cure rates by extending cure windows and weekend/extended access for federal elections.
- Limits on early-results dissemination aim to reduce pre-election public release of early tallies.
Purpose
- Change the duration of unemployment benefit ineligibility when an individual’s unemployment is due to a stoppage of work caused by a labor dispute.
Key provisions
- Current/introduced change:
- The bill provides that an individual shall be ineligible for unemployment benefits for a period totaling and not to exceed 2 weeks (rather than being ineligible for “any week” found to be due to a labor dispute).
- After the 2-week period, the individual becomes eligible for benefits even if the labor dispute continues.
- Continued exclusions and clarifications:
- “Labor dispute” does not include an employee’s refusal to work because the employer failed to pay accrued earned wages (or other uncontested accrued obligations) within 10 working days of when due.
- Provisions concerning lockouts, bargaining, and conditions under which locked-out employees may or may not be eligible are retained in the statutory language (including ineligibility in certain circumstances tied to bargaining conduct).
- Exceptions if the individual is not participating in, financing, or directly interested in the labor dispute (or not in the affected grade/class of workers).
Affected parties
- Workers unemployed because of strikes/lockouts/other labor disputes.
- Employers and labor organizations (collective bargaining dynamics may be affected).
- State unemployment insurance system (potential fiscal effects due to expanded eligibility after 2 weeks).
Potential impacts and issues
- Shortens the duration of disqualification from an open-ended “any week” standard to a fixed 2-week maximum, potentially increasing benefit access for workers who are unemployed due to prolonged labor disputes.
- May increase short-term unemployment insurance payouts; net fiscal effect depends on dispute frequency and duration.
- Retains exclusions for certain employee conduct and for lockout/bargaining circumstances, leaving room for administrative adjudication in contested cases.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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