An Act amending the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment Compensation Law, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions.

PRINTER'S NO. 1284
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1157
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY SAPPEY, PASHINSKI, OTTEN, HILL-EVANS, SANCHEZ,
MADDEN, CERRATO AND ECKER, APRIL 7, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS,
APRIL 7, 2025
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)(3)(G)(a) and (a.1) of the act of
December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as
the Unemployment Compensation Law, are amended to read:
Section 4. Definitions.--The following words and phrases, as
used in this act, shall have the following meanings, unless the
context clearly requires otherwise.
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(3) "Employment" shall also include--
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(G) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act,
service performed [after December 31, 1977,] by an individual in
agricultural labor as defined in section 4(l)(4)(1) when:
(a) Such service is performed for a person who--
(1) during any calendar quarter in either the current or the
preceding calendar year paid remuneration in cash of twenty
thousand dollars or more to individuals employed in agricultural
labor [(not taking into account service in agricultural labor
performed before January 1, 1982, by an alien referred to in
section 4(l)(3)(G)(a.1) or 4(l)(2)(G)(a.1))] (including labor
performed by an alien referred to in section 4(l)(3)(G)(a.1));
or
(2) for some portion of a day in each of twenty different
calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in
either the current or the preceding calendar year, employed in
agricultural labor [(not taking into account service in
agricultural labor performed before January 1, 1982, by an alien
referred to in section 4(l)(3)(G)(a.1))] (including labor
performed by an alien referred to in section 4(l)(3)(G)(a.1))
ten or more individuals, regardless of whether they were
employed at the same moment of time.
(a.1) Such service is not performed in agricultural labor if
performed [before January 1, 1982,] by an individual who is an
alien admitted to the United States to perform service in
agricultural labor pursuant to sections 214(c) and 101(a)(15)(H)
of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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Section 2. This act shall apply to service performed after
December 31, 2025.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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