Bill Text: MA H3580 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced


Bill Title: Unemployment insurance for seasonal workers at municipal, county, or state golf courses

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 12/2 at 10:30 AM in Hearing Room A2 [H3580 Detail]

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Cleon H. Turner

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
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��������������� The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to municipal seasonal workers.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Cleon H. Turner

1st Barnstable

John D. Keenan

7th Essex

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

Jennifer M. Callahan

18th Worcester

Robert L. Rice, Jr.

2nd Worcester

Robert A. O'Leary

Cape and Islands


 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine

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An Act relative to municipal seasonal workers.



��������������� Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

����������� SECTION 1. Chapter 151A of the general laws shall be amended in subsection (bb) by deleting paragraphs (1) and (2) in their entirety and replacing them with the following:-

(1)�� has been employed by a seasonal employer in seasonal employment during a regularly recurring period or periods of� less than sixteen weeks in a calendar year or by a public employer at a municipal, county, or state golf course for less than 28 weeks in a calendar year for all seasonal periods as determined by the commissioner or as otherwise defined in this chapter.

(2)�� has been hired for a specific temporary seasonal period as determined by the commissioner or as otherwise defined in this chapter.

SECTION 2. Chapter 151A shall be further amended in subsection (bb), paragraph (3), sentence (A) by inserting in said sentence after the word, �seasonal employer�, the words, �or by a public employer at a municipal, county or state golf course�.

SECTION 3. Chapter 151A shall be further amended in subsection (cc) by adding after the first sentence the following sentence:-

For the purposes of public seasonal employment at a municipal, county, or state golf course, the seasonal period shall be 28 weeks or less.

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