PRINTER'S NO. 193
No. 197 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY ARMSTRONG, JANUARY 25, 1999
REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 25, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937
2 P.L.2897, No.1), entitled "An act establishing a system of
3 unemployment compensation to be administered by the
4 Department of Labor and Industry and its existing and newly
5 created agencies with personnel (with certain exceptions)
6 selected on a civil service basis; requiring employers to
7 keep records and make reports, and certain employers to pay
8 contributions based on payrolls to provide moneys for the
9 payment of compensation to certain unemployed persons;
10 providing procedure and administrative details for the
11 determination, payment and collection of such contributions
12 and the payment of such compensation; providing for
13 cooperation with the Federal Government and its agencies;
14 creating certain special funds in the custody of the State
15 Treasurer; and prescribing penalties," relieving certain sole
16 proprietors from liability for contributions.
17 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
18 hereby enacts as follows:
19 Section 1. The act of December 5, 1936 (2nd Sp.Sess., 1937
20 P.L.2897, No.1), known as the Unemployment Compensation Law, is
21 amended by adding a section to read:
22 Section 314. Certain Sole Proprietors.--A sole proprietor of
23 an unincorporated business shall not be liable for the payment
24 of contributions on his earnings from that business.
1 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar
2 as they are inconsistent with this act.
3 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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