Bill Text: NY A05564 | 2019-2020 | 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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A05564 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05564-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5564 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2019 ___________ 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 is renumbered 2 subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows: 3 2. Exclusion from coverage. The term "employment" shall not include 4 services rendered by an individual who is an alien admitted to the 5 United States to perform agricultural labor pursuant to sections 214(c) 6 and 101(a)(15)(H) of the Federal Immigration and Nationality Act if, at 7 the time such services are rendered, they are excluded from the defi- 8 nition of employment in section 3306(c) of the Federal Unemployment Tax 9 Act. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08365-01-9