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Read. Follow. Verify.Ohio HB 321 raises unemployment taxable wage base and requires employee contributions for employers with negative fund balances
Last action · June 4, 2025: Referred to Public Insurance and PensionsSponsor: Bob Peterson
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What This Bill Would Do
Ohio HB 321 increases the under the Unemployment Compensation Law to $9,500 effective January 1, 2026, and requires employees of s with negative account balances in the Unemployment Compensation Fund to pay a contribution of fourteen hundredths of one per cent of gross remuneration.
Workers employed by businesses with negative unemployment fund balances face mandatory payroll deductions of 0.14% from their gross wages, while employers experience an increased ceiling and potential state withholding of vendor payments for unpaid debts.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Employees of contributory employers with negative account balances
Employees must pay a contribution of 0.14% of gross remuneration deducted each payroll period when their employer has a negative unemployment account balance.
Contributory employers
Employers face an increased taxable wage base of $9,500 and must deduct and remit employee contributions if they maintain a negative account balance.
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When does the new taxable wage base take effect?
Who must pay the new employee contribution?
How are employee contributions collected?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jun 4, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Public Insurance and Pensions
- Jun 3, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduced
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Introduction of Employee Contributions for Negative Balances
The legislation shifts a portion of unemployment financing to employees when their employer's account has a negative balance.
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www.legislature.ohio.gov
Analysis Score
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- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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