SB 437 - AS INTRODUCED

2004 SESSION

04-3130

08/01

SENATE BILL 437

AN ACT relative to unemployment compensation.

SPONSORS: Sen. Odell, Dist 8; Rep. Ferland, Sull 23; Rep. Giuda, Graf 13; Rep. J. Pratt, Ches 24

COMMITTEE: Insurance

ANALYSIS

This bill includes corporate entities as evidence to be used by the commissioner to exclude services by individuals from being deemed employment for unemployment compensation.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04-3130

08/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Four

AN ACT relative to unemployment compensation.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Definitions. Amend RSA 282-A:9, III(b)-(c) to read as follows:

(b) Such service is either outside the usual course of the business for which such service is performed or that such service is performed outside of all the places of business of the enterprise for which such service is performed; [and]

(c) Such individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession, or business; and

(d) Such individual is an independent contractor operating as a corporate entity.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.