Bill Text: PA HB2059 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for personal earnings exempt from process.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 24-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-10-26 - Referred to LABOR RELATIONS [HB2059 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2059-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2836
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2059 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GROVE, GILLESPIE, MILLER, TALLMAN, BENNINGHOFF, CLYMER, D. COSTA, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, EVERETT, GEIST, GINGRICH, HARHAI, HARRIS, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, MUSTIO, OBERLANDER, PYLE, RAPP, REICHLEY, ROHRER, K. SMITH, SWANGER, TRUE AND VULAKOVICH, OCTOBER 26, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, OCTOBER 26, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
personal earning exempt from process.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 8127(a) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
§ 8127. Personal earnings exempt from process.
(a) General rule and exceptions.--The wages, salaries and
commissions of individuals shall while in the hands of the
employer be exempt from any attachment, execution or other
process except upon an action or proceeding:
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(6) For recovery and recoupment of compensation paid
under the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937
P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment Compensation Law,
from a person who has been found liable to repay funds
received to the Unemployment Compensation Fund under section
804(a) of the act.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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