STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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