PRINTER'S NO. 1061
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1027
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY SIMS, MADDEN, BENHAM, HILL-EVANS, SANCHEZ, HOWARD,
BURGOS, O'MARA AND PARKER, MARCH 26, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, MARCH 26, 2021
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 penalty provisions,
further providing for recovery and recoupment of
compensation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 804 of the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd
Sp.Sess., 1937 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment
Compensation Law, is amended by adding a subsection to read:
Section 804. Recovery and Recoupment of Compensation.--* * *
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, during
the proclamation of disaster emergency issued by the Governor on
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March 6, 2020, published at 50 Pa.B . 1644 (March 21, 2020), and
any renewal of the disaster emergency, the department shall not
take any action to recoup compensation paid under this act to a
person who was not entitled to the compensation between March 6,
2020 , through sixty (60) days after termination of the disaster
emergency unless the compensation was paid to the person because
the person made a false statement knowing it to be false, or
knowingly failed to disclose a material fact to obtain or
increase compensation.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 30 days.
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