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PUBLIC LAW 7 6 1 - S E P T. 1, 1954

S o c i al Security Amendments of 1954.

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Public Law 761 September 1, 1954 [H. R. 9366]

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AN ACT To amend the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code so as to extend coverage under the old-age and survivors insurance program, increase the benefits payable thereunder, preserve the insurance rights of disabled individuals, and increase the amount of earnings permitted without loss of benefits, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Social Security Amendments of 1954". TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE II O F THE SOCIAL S E C U R I T Y ACT EXTENSION OF COVERAGE DOMESTIC SERVICE, SERVICE NOT IN COURSE OF EMPLOYER'S BUSINESS, AND AGRICULTURAL LABOR

64 Stat, 493. 42 USC 409.

42 USC 410.

46 Stat. 1550. 12 USC 1141j(g).

65 Stat. 119. 7 USC 1461-1468.

SEC. 101. (a)(1) Paragraph (2) of section 209(g) of the Social Security Act is amended to read as follows: "(2) Cash remuneration paid by an employer in any calendar quarter to an employee for domestic service in a private home of the employer, if the cash remuneration paid in such quarter by the employer to the employee for such service is less than $50. As used in this paragraph, the term 'domestic service in a private home of the employer' does not include service described in section 210 (f)(5);". (2) Section 209(g) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(3) Cash remuneration paid by an employer in any calendar quarter to an employee for service not in the course of the employer's trade or business, if the cash remuneration paid in such quarter by the employer to the employee for such service is less than $50. As used in this paragraph, the term 'service not in the course of the employer's trade or business' does not include domestic service in a private home of the employer and does not include service described in section 210(f)(5);". (3) Section 209(h) of such Act is amended by inserting " (1) " after " (h) " and by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(2) Cash remuneration paid by an employer in any calendar year to an employee for agricultural labor, if the cash remuneration paid in such year by the employer to the employee for such labor is less than $100;". (4) Section 210(a)(1) of such Act is amended to read as follows: "(1)(A) Service performed in connection with the production or harvesting of any commodity defined as an agricultural commodity in section 15(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended; " (B) Service performed by foreign agricultural workers (i) under contracts entered into in accordance with title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, or (ii) lawfully admitted to the United States from the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the other British West Indies on a temporary basis to perform agricultural labor;". (5) Section 210(a) of such Act is amended by striking out paragraph (3) and redesignating paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14), and any references thereto contained

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