Bill Text: NY S05341 | 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 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05341 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05341-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5341 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 2, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEC -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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
