Bill Text: NY A04785 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempts agricultural employers from paying for unemployment coverage for alien farm laborers, who are federally ineligible from receiving such benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A04785 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04785-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4785 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to exempting agricultural employers from paying for unemployment benefits for federally ineligi- ble farm labor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 564 of the labor law, as amended 2 by chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 3 2. Exclusion from coverage. For purposes of this section the term 4 "employment" shall not include services rendered by an individual who is 5 admitted to the United States to perform agricultural labor pursuant to 6 8 USC 1188 or an individual who is an alien admitted to the United 7 States to perform agricultural labor pursuant to sections 214(c) and 8 101(a)(15)(H) of the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act and if, at 9 the time such services are rendered, they are excluded from the defi- 10 nition of employment in section 3306(c) of the Federal Unemployment Tax 11 Act. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08983-01-1
