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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966

[80 STAT.

(K) as a member of a State, county, or community committee under the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service or of any other board, council, committee, or other similar body, unless the board, council, committee, or other body is composed exclusively of individuals otherwise in the full-time employ of the United States; or (L) by an officer or a member of the crew on or in connection with an American vessel— (i) owned by or bareboat chartered to the United States; and (ii) whose business is conducted by a general agent of the Secretary of Commerce; if contributions on account of the service are required to be made to an unemployment fund under a State unemployment compensation law under section 3305(g) of title 26; (2) "Federal wages" means all pay and allowances, in cash and in kind, for Federal service; (3) "Federal employee" means an individual who has performed Federal service; (4) "compensation" means cash benefits payable to an individual with respect to his unemployment including any portion thereof payable with respect to dependents; (5) "benefit year" means the benefit year as defined by the applicable State unemployment compensation law, and if not so defined the term means the period prescribed in the agreement under this subchapter with a State or, in the absence oi such an agreement, the period prescribed by the Secretary of Labor; (6) "State" means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and (7) "United States", when used in a geographical sense, means the States. § 8502. Compensation under State agreement (a) The Secretary of Labor, on behalf of the United States, may enter into an agreement with a State, or with an agency administering the unemployment compensation law of a State, under which the State agency shall— (1) pay, as agent of the United States, compensation under this subchapter to Federal employees; and (2) otherwise cooperate with the Secretary and with other Stato agencies in paying compensation under this subchapter. (b) Except as provided by subsection (c) of this section, the agreement shall provide that compensation will be paid by the State to a Federal employee in the same amount, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions as the compensation which would be payable to him under the unemployment compensation law of the State if his Federal service and Federal wages assigned under section 8504 of this title to the State had been included as employment and wages under that State law. (c) I n the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the agreement shall provide that compensation will be paid by the Commonwealth to a Federal employee whose Federal service and Federal wages are assigned under section 8504 of this title to the Commonwealth (but only in the case of weeks of unemployment beginning before January 1, 1966), in the same amount, on the same terms, and subject to the same conditions as the compensation which would be payable to him under the unemployment compensation law of the District of

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