Bill Text: PA HB803 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for qualifications required to secure compensation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 43-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-09 - Referred to LABOR RELATIONS [HB803 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB803-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 893
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 803 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY QUINN, BENNINGHOFF, BOYD, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DENLINGER, ELLIS, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEIST, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GRELL, GROVE, HENNESSEY, HESS, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, M. KELLER, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MICOZZIE, MILLER, MOUL, MURT, MUSTIO, PETRI, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PYLE, REICHLEY, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SOLOBAY, STERN, STEVENSON, TALLMAN, TRUE, TURZAI, VULAKOVICH AND BEYER, MARCH 9, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MARCH 9, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937
P.L.2897, No.1), entitled "An act establishing a system of
unemployment compensation to be administered by the
Department of Labor and Industry and its existing and newly
created agencies with personnel (with certain exceptions)
selected on a civil service basis; requiring employers to
keep records and make reports, and certain employers to pay
contributions based on payrolls to provide moneys for the
payment of compensation to certain unemployed persons;
providing procedure and administrative details for the
determination, payment and collection of such contributions
and the payment of such compensation; providing for
cooperation with the Federal Government and its agencies;
creating certain special funds in the custody of the State
Treasurer; and prescribing penalties," further providing for
qualifications required to secure compensation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 401(b) of the act of December 5, 1936
(2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment
Compensation Law, amended July 9, 1976 (P.L.842, No.147), is
amended to read:
Section 401. Qualifications Required to Secure
Compensation.--Compensation shall be payable to any employe who
is or becomes unemployed, and who--
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[(b) Has registered for work at, and thereafter continued to
report to an employment office in accordance with such
regulations as the secretary may prescribe, except that the
secretary may by regulation waive or alter either or both of the
requirements of this clause as to individuals attached to
regular jobs and as to such other types of cases or situations
with respect to which he finds that compliance with such
requirements would be oppressive or would be inconsistent with
the purposes of the act: Provided, however, That no such
regulation shall conflict with section four hundred and one (c)
of this act;]
(b) Is making an active search for suitable employment. For
the purposes of this subsection, the term "active search" shall
mean registration for employment search services offered by
Pennsylvania CareerLink system, posting a resume on the system's
database and applying for positions listed on the system's
database which offer employment and wages similar to those the
claimant had prior to the unemployment and which are within a
sixty (60) mile commuting distance. The secretary may establish
additional criteria to define the term "active search" through
promulgating regulations. The Pennsylvania CareerLink system
will provide documentation, as the secretary deems is
appropriate, to the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation
Service Center system so the center can conduct the necessary
cross reference checks.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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