CHAPTER 36

An Act to amend and reenact § 60-68, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
to preclude certain benefit wages from the wages deemed to have been

paid by an employer. CH 260]

Approved February 14, 1958

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. Effective May first, nineteen hundred fifty-six, 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 indi-
vidual’s “benefit wages”. If such individual’s unemployment is caused by
separation from an employer subject to this title, 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 employer from whom such individual was separated,
resulting in the current period of unemployment, shall be the most recent
employer for whom such individual has performed services for remunera-
tion during thirty days, whether or not such days are consecutive. For the
purposes of this article, “benefit wages” shall include only the first two
thousand and sixteen dollars of wages received by any one individual from
all employers in such individual’s base period.

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

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.