PRINTER'S NO. 1993
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1335
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, TEPLITZ, COSTA, SABATINA, SCHWANK,
YUDICHAK AND FONTANA, JUNE 28, 2016
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JUNE 28, 2016
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 contributions by
employers and employees, further providing for contributions
by employees and for Service and Infrastructure Improvement
Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 301.4(e) and 301.9(e) and (g) of the act
of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known
as the Unemployment Compensation Law, amended or added July 2,
2013 (P.L.195, No.34), are amended to read:
Section 301.4. Contributions by Employes.--* * *
(e) Contributions paid under this section shall be allocated
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by the department among the Unemployment Compensation Fund, the
Reemployment Fund and the Service and Infrastructure Improvement
Fund as follows:
(1) Five per centum (5%) of the contributions on wages paid
from January 1, 2013, through September 30, 2017, shall be
deposited into the Reemployment Fund to the extent the
contributions are paid on or before December 31, 2017.
(2) During each calendar year from 2013 through [2016,]
2020, an amount determined by the secretary with the approval of
the Governor shall be deposited into the Service and
Infrastructure Improvement Fund[.] as follows:
(i) For calendar year 2013, the amount determined under this
clause may not exceed forty million dollars ($40,000,000).
(ii) For calendar year 2014, the amount determined under
this clause may not exceed thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).
(iii) For calendar years 2015 and 2016, the amount
determined under this clause for each calendar year may not
exceed one hundred ninety million dollars ($190,000,000)
adjusted by the increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Consumer Price Index for the period from May 2013 through
January of the calendar year less the amount of Federal
administrative funding for the preceding Federal fiscal year.
(iv) For calendar years 2017 through 2020, the amount
determined under this clause for each calendar year may not
exceed two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) adjusted by
the increase in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price
Index for the period from January 2016 through January of the
calendar year less the amount of Federal administrative funding
for the preceding Federal fiscal year.
(3) The remaining contributions shall be deposited into the
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Unemployment Compensation Fund.
(4) The department may deposit contributions in accordance
with clause (2) before depositing contributions in accordance
with clauses (1) and (3).
Section 301.9. Service and Infrastructure Improvement
Fund.--* * *
(e) Any moneys in the Service and Infrastructure Improvement
Fund that are not expended or obligated as of December 31,
[2018,] 2022, shall be transferred to the Unemployment
Compensation Fund under section 601.
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(g) No later than June 30 of each calendar year from 2014
through [2019,] 2023, the department shall provide a report to
the Governor and the General Assembly, through the Secretary-
Parliamentarian of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House
of Representatives, regarding the Service and Infrastructure
Improvement Fund, which report shall include an accounting for
the contributions deposited into the fund, the expenditures and
transfers from the fund during the prior year and a description
of the purposes for which expenditures from the fund were made
in the prior year.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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