GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 103

HOUSE BILL 527

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE EMPLOYMENT SECURITY LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 96-3(d) is amended by inserting "or his designee" after "chairman" and before "and".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 96-8(5)n is amended by deleting from the second sentence "Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963" and substituting "Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 96-8(6)g is amended by deleting from the last sentence "January 1, 1980" and substituting "January 1, 1993".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 96-18(g)(3) is amended by adding a new paragraph after paragraph d to read as follows:

"e.        To the extent permissible under the laws and Constitution of the United States, the Commission is authorized to enter into or cooperate in arrangements or reciprocal agreements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or the United States Secretary of Labor, or both, whereby:  (1) Overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under subparagraphs (1) and (2) above shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under the unemployment compensation law of another state, and overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under the unemployment compensation law of such other state shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under this Chapter; and, (2) Overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under applicable federal law, with respect to benefits or allowances for unemployment provided under a federal program administered by this State under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor, shall be recovered by offset from unemployment benefits otherwise payable under this Chapter or any such federal program, or under the unemployment compensation law of another state or any such federal unemployment benefit or allowance program administered by such other state under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor if such other state has in effect a reciprocal agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor as authorized by Section 303(g)(2) of the federal Social Security Act, if the United States agrees, as provided in the reciprocal agreement with this State entered into under such Section 303(g)(2) of the Social Security Act, that overpayments of unemployment benefits as determined under subparagraphs (1) and (2) above, and overpayment as determined under the unemployment compensation law of another state which has in effect a reciprocal agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor as authorized by Section 303(g)(2) of the Social Security Act, shall be recovered by offset from benefits or allowances for unemployment otherwise payable under a federal program administered by this State or such other state under an agreement with the United States Secretary of Labor."

Sec. 5.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of April, 1987.