PRINTER'S NO. 253
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
268
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY WHITE, FOLMER, VOGEL, BARTOLOTTA, MARTIN,
McILHINNEY, MENSCH AND RAFFERTY, JANUARY 31, 2017
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 31, 2017
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 administration of
act, further providing for personnel and employment offices.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 202 of the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd
Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment
Compensation Law, is amended to read:
Section 202. Personnel and Employment Offices.--(a) The
secretary shall have power to establish such offices and to
appoint and fix the compensation of such employes in such
offices and in the department as he may deem necessary to
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administer this act, subject to the provisions of the act,
approved the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and
forty-one (Pamphlet Laws, seven hundred fifty-two). Unemployment
compensation service centers shall be open to the public and
provide for walk-in services.
(b) The department is authorized to cooperate with or to
enter into agreements with the Railroad Retirement Board or any
other agency of the United States charged with the
administration of an unemployment compensation law, with any
political subdivision of this State, or with any private
nonprofit organization, with respect to the establishment,
maintenance, and use of free employment service facilities and
free public employment offices, and, as a part of any such
agreement, may accept moneys, services, or quarters as a
contribution to the administration fund.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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