Bill Text - SB16 (2019)

Relative to certain information provided by the commissioner of the department of employment security to the United States Department of Labor.


Revision: Jan. 14, 2019, 2:28 p.m.

SB 16  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0964

08/03

 

SENATE BILL 16

 

AN ACT relative to certain information provided by the commissioner of the department of employment security to the United States Department of Labor.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. French, Dist 7

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill changes the effective date for certain federal systems of data exchange.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0964

08/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to certain information provided by the commissioner of the department of employment security to the United States Department of Labor.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Reports or Statement; Federal Employment Data Exchange System.  Amend RSA 282-A:118, V to read as follows:

V.  That for the purpose of assessing governmental performance and accountability, the commissioner of the department of employment security may provide information to the Wage Record Interchange System, the Wage Record Interchange System 2, the Federal Employment Data Exchange System, or any other similar system or combination thereof in effect on or before July 1, [2018] 2020 developed by the U.S. Department of Labor as administered by the U.S. Department of Labor, or its designee, and utilized by each state's Performance Accountability and Customer Information Agency (PACIA).  The use of the information shall be limited to the purposes contained in the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 or the Wagner-Peyser Act.  The department may only provide aggregate statistical reports to entities participating in federal or state supported workforce training programs and only for purposes of assessment and evaluation of those programs.  The department shall require any such qualifying entity to enter into an agreement with the department which sets forth terms and conditions that are consistent with federal and state law prior to being provided any aggregate statistical reports.  Information under this paragraph shall only be provided upon a finding by the commissioner that sufficient guarantees of continued confidentiality are in place;

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.