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Senate Bill S7289

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Excludes alien farm laborers from unemployment insurance coverage

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2013-S7289 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง564, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S1853
2017-2018: S139
2019-2020: S2525
2021-2022: S5341

2013-S7289 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes alien farm laborers from unemployment insurance coverage.

2013-S7289 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S7289 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7289

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 9, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- 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 excluding certain agricul-
  tural labor from coverage under  the  provision  of  the  unemployment
  insurance law

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 564 of the labor law is renumbered
subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
  2. EXCLUSION FROM COVERAGE. THE TERM  "EMPLOYMENT"  DOES  NOT  INCLUDE
SERVICES  RENDERED  BY  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS AN ALIEN ADMITTED TO THE
UNITED STATES TO PERFORM AGRICULTURAL LABOR PURSUANT TO SECTIONS  214(C)
AND  101(A)(15)(H) OF THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT IF, AT
THE TIME SUCH SERVICES ARE RENDERED, THEY ARE EXCLUDED  FROM  THE  DEFI-
NITION  OF EMPLOYMENT IN SECTION 3306(C) OF THE FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX
ACT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15057-01-4

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