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PRINTER'S NO. 2303
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1582
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY ADOLPH, BARRAR, KILLION, MILLARD, THOMAS, STAATS,
GREINER, MURT, TRUITT, ROSS, TAYLOR, GROVE, EVERETT, COHEN,
DUNBAR, ZIMMERMAN, LONGIETTI, HEFFLEY, WARNER, PETRI, PEIFER
AND PICKETT, OCTOBER 5, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, OCTOBER 5, 2015
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 compensation,
further providing for eligibility of officers of corporation
deemed to be self-employed persons.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 402.4(a) of the act of December 5, 1936
(2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment
Compensation Law, added July 21, 1983 (P.L.68, No.30), is
amended to read:
Section 402.4. Eligibility of Officers of a Corporation
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Deemed to be Self-Employed Persons.--(a) Notwithstanding any
other provision of this act, an officer of a corporation who is
deemed to be a self-employed person because he exercised a
substantial degree of control over the corporation and who
becomes unemployed [due to the fact that the corporation enters
into involuntary bankruptcy proceedings under the provisions of
Chapter 7, Title 11 of the United States Code] shall be entitled
to receive unemployment compensation under this act[: Provided,
That the wages paid to the officer of a corporation deemed to be
a self-employed person were mandatorily subject to this act]
unless the unemployment is the result of the sale or divestment
of ownership or voluntary termination of the business.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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