Bill Text: NY S07289 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Excludes alien farm laborers from unemployment insurance coverage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-09 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07289-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7289
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 9, 2014
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       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:
    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"  DOES  NOT  INCLUDE
    4  SERVICES  RENDERED  BY  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS AN ALIEN ADMITTED TO THE
    5  UNITED STATES TO PERFORM AGRICULTURAL LABOR PURSUANT TO SECTIONS  214(C)
    6  AND  101(A)(15)(H) OF THE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT IF, AT
    7  THE TIME SUCH SERVICES ARE RENDERED, THEY ARE EXCLUDED  FROM  THE  DEFI-
    8  NITION  OF EMPLOYMENT IN SECTION 3306(C) OF THE FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX
    9  ACT.
   10    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