TITLE: CONCERNING MEASURES TO REQUIRE COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL SELECTIVE SERVICE REQUIREMENTS, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, REQUIRING COMPLIANCE FOR RECEIPT OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND FOR STATE EMPLOYMENT AND REQUIRING DISTRIBUTION OF REGISTRATION FORMS TO CERTAIN DRIVER’S LICENSE APPLICANTS.

Fiscal Impact Summary	FY 1999/2000	FY 2000/2001
State Revenues General Fund
State Expenditures Cash Fund	Potential minimal reduction in unemployment benefits
FTE Position Change	0.0 FTE	0.0 FTE
Other State Impact: None
Effective Date: July 1, 1999
Appropriation Summary for FY 1999-2000: None
Local Government Impact: None

The bill would add a requirement for eligibility for every male between the ages of 18 and 26 to be registered with the Selective Service System in order to apply for:

• unemployment benefits with the Division of Employment and Training within the Department of Labor;

The Department of Labor and Employment would stop or not issue unemployment benefits for any male person between 18 and 26 years of age who was not registered with the selective service system or would not register when learning that registration was a requirement to receive benefits. The average 1997 unemployment benefit received by the 6,052 persons in this age group was $668 for a total benefit payout of $4,042,736. There were 6,171 males (6.5 percent) between the ages of 18 and 26 that received unemployment benefits in 1998. (Some accounts are still open and the average and total payments have not been calculated at this time.) This bill would prohibit payments to those persons who failed to comply. The number of persons who would fail to register is not known. It is assumed that most males would comply with the law to receive unemployment benefits. Therefore, it is estimated that any reduction in benefit payments would be minimal.

The Department of Labor and Employment would not incur additional expenditures to implement this bill. The Department of Personnel would not incur additional expenditures to implement this bill. The Department of Revenue would have some minimal costs to implement this bill. However, the increased expenditures are minimal and would be completed within existing resources. This fiscal note assumes that the Department of Revenue will obtain the selective service forms from the federal government this bill requires the department to provide.