Bill Text: NY A07619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Exempts agricultural employers from paying for unemployment benefits for farm laborers, who are federally ineligible from receiving such benefits.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A07619 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07619-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7619--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, SANTABARBARA, BUTTENSCHON, McDONALD, McMAHON, WOERNER, STECK, HAWLEY, CROUCH, LIFTON, JONES, BLANKENBUSH, B. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee 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 admitted to the United States 5 to perform agricultural labor pursuant to 8 USC 1188 if, at the time 6 such services are rendered, they are excluded from the definition of 7 employment in section 3306(c) of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11611-02-9
