PRINTER'S NO. 1059
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1045
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY GUZMAN, BURGOS, D. MILLER, HOHENSTEIN, SANCHEZ,
GUENST, MADDEN, HANBIDGE, RABB, PARKER, PASHINSKI, KINKEAD,
HILL-EVANS, CIRESI, CONKLIN, FIEDLER, KRAJEWSKI, FREEMAN,
N. NELSON, KHAN, BULLOCK, YOUNG AND GREEN, APRIL 28, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, APRIL 28, 2023
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," in preliminary
provisions, further providing for definitions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4(l)(4)(1) introductory paragraph of the
act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1),
known as the Unemployment Compensation Law, is amended and
subsection (l)(3) is amended by adding a subparagraph to read:
Section 4. Definitions.--The following words and phrases, as
used in this act, shall have the following meanings, unless the
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context clearly requires otherwise.
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(3) "Employment" shall also include--
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(I) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act,
service performed after December 31, 2023, by an individual in
agricultural labor, as defined in paragraph (4)(1). For purposes
of this subparagraph (I), the employer of an agricultural
laborer shall be deemed to be the owner, operator or leaseholder
of the land on which the services are performed if compensation
for employment was paid by or on behalf of the owner, operator
or leaseholder of the land. If the owner, operator or
leaseholder permits a farm labor contractor to pay wages to an
agricultural laborer on the owner's, operator's or leaseholder's
behalf, the owner, operator or leaseholder shall be the employer
under this subsection for all purposes.
(4) The word "employment" shall not include--
(1) Agricultural labor which shall include all services
performed except those services defined in 4(l)(3)(G) or (I)--
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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