CHAPTER 83

An Act to amend and reenact § 60-68, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to an individual’s “benefit wages” under the Virginia Un-
employment Compensation Act. S 45

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Approved February 20, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 60-68, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 60-68. (a) Effective * October first, nineteen hundred sixty-two,
when in any benefit year an individual is paid benefits equal to three times
his weekly benefit amount his wages during his base period shall be termed
the individual’s “benefit wages’. If such individual’s unemployment is
caused by separation from an employer *, such individual’s “benefit
wages” shall be treated for the purposes of this article as though they had
been paid by such employer in the calendar year in which such benefits
are first paid. The * employing unit from whom such individual was sep-
arated, resulting in the current period of unemployment, shall be the
most recent * employing unit for whom such individual has performed
services for remuneration during thirty days, whether or not such days
are consecutive. For the purposes of this article, “benefit wages” shall
include only the first * three thousand * two hundred and sixty-four dol-
lars of wages received by any one individual from all employers in such
individual’s base period.

(b) An individual’s “benefit wages” shall not be treated as though
they had been paid by an employer * if such employer is deemed to have
paid, under this section, other “‘benefit wages” of such individual arising
out of the same separation from work.

(c) No “benefit wages” shall be deemed to have been paid by any
employer of an individual whose separation from the work of such
employer arose as a result of a violation of the law by such individual,
which violation led to confinement in any jail or prison, or by any employer
of an individual who voluntarily left employment in order to accept other
employment, genuinely believing such employment to be permanent, and
when such individual thereafter refused to accept an offer of the original
work when the new employment did not last as many as thirty days.

2. This act, except for paragraph (c), shall be effective October 1, 1962.
Paragraph (c) shall be effective July 1, 1962.