PRINTER'S NO. 1536
No. 1321 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY BLACKWELL, RICHARDSON, OLIVER, RHODES, ROSS,
BARBER, JOHNSON, HAMMOCK, A. K. HUTCHINSON AND IRVIS,
MAY 28, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, JUNE 2, 1975
A SUPPLEMENT
1 To the act of December 5, 1936, 2nd Sp.Sess., (1937 P.L.2897,
2 No.1), entitled "An act establishing a system of unemployment
3 compensation to be administered by the Department of Labor
4 and Industry and its existing and newly created agencies with
5 personnel (with certain exceptions) selected on a civil
6 service basis; requiring employers to keep records and make
7 reports, and certain employers to pay contributions based on
8 payrolls to provide moneys for the payment of compensation to
9 certain unemployed persons; providing procedure and
10 administrative details for the determination, payment and
11 collection of such contributions and the payment of such
12 compensation; providing for cooperation with the Federal
13 Government and its agencies; creating certain special funds
14 in the custody of the State Treasurer; and prescribing
15 penalties," providing emergency provisions to increase
16 benefits and extend time and persons covered; providing
17 medical benefits; establishing new offices and providing a
18 moratorium on evictions and repossessions.
19 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
20 hereby enacts as follows:
21 Section 1. Whenever the unemployment rate in this
22 Commonwealth shall exceed seven per centum, the following
23 emergency provisions shall take effect automatically until such
24 time that the unemployment rate shall again be below seven per
25 centum.
1 Section 2. The rate of compensation benefits shall be
2 increased to seventy-five per centum of the recipient's gross
3 wages to a maximum of three hundred dollars ($300).
4 Section 3. Benefits shall be payable to all unemployed
5 workers, including first-time job seekers, who have registered
6 with the Bureau of Employment Security for the duration of the
7 period of the layoff without limitation except as otherwise
8 provided in this act.
9 Section 4. The Bureau of Employment Security is hereby
10 authorized and empowered and its duty shall be to provide
11 medical benefits coverage for the unemployed, not otherwise
12 covered, during their period of unemployment in any approved
13 medical benefit plan such as, but not limited to, Blue Cross and
14 Blue Shield or Medicaid.
15 Section 5. The Bureau of Employment Security is hereby
16 authorized and shall establish ten new offices regionally
17 located within the City of Philadelphia where it shall hire the
18 unemployed to process claims.
19 Section 6. During the period of time that this emergency act
20 shall be in effect, there is hereby declared a moratorium on all
21 evictions and repossessions.
22 Section 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
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