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(Continued from Page 1) unemployment compensation if they have signed contracts for the coming year.

Delegate French Slaughter also said he thought coverage included teachers but added that he remembered very little discussion when House Bill 1929 was considered by the General Assembly during the last session. He attributed this to the federal mandate for unemployment compensation handed down to the states. “We had no discretion” and had to act to mandate unemployment compensation without regard to financial impact on localities,” according to Delegate Slaughter.

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