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Assembly Bill A4785

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Exempts agricultural employers from paying for unemployment benefits for federally ineligible farm labor

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2021-A4785 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5341
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §564, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7289
2015-2016: A6256, S1853
2017-2018: A4480, S139
2019-2020: A5564, S2525

2021-A4785 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts agricultural employers from paying for unemployment coverage for alien farm laborers, who are federally ineligible from receiving such benefits.

2021-A4785 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4785
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 564 of the labor law,  as  amended
 by chapter 105 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Exclusion  from  coverage.  For  purposes of this section the term
 "employment" shall not include services rendered by an individual who is
 admitted to the United States to perform agricultural labor pursuant  to
 8  USC  1188  OR  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 AND  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.
   § 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

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