Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 282

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FOURTH PARAGRAPH OF SECTION 5501, CHAPTER 55, TITLE 29, DELAWARE CODE, BY MAKING A CHANGE IN THE DEFINITION OF "COV ERED EMPLOYMENT".

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Amend § 5501, Title 29, Delaware Code, by changing the fourth paragraph thereof, defining "covered employment", to read as follows:

"Any other provision of this chapter notwithstanding, an employee shall be considered in covered employment (1) while the employee was a regular salaried employee of the National Reemployment Service, working in the State of Delaware, (2) while the employee was a regular salaried employee of the Federal Government, engaged in employment service functions in this State during the period from January 1, 1942 to November 15, 1946, with respect to which period of federal service the employee is not entitled to credit under the Federal Civil Service Retirement System, and after which period of federal service the employee returned to State service in the Delaware Unemployment Compensation Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress (Public Law 549, approved July 26, 1946) known as the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act of 1947, and (3) while the employee receives or has received a regular salary from a State agency that is supported wholly or in part by funds granted to the State by the Federal Government. Such employee shall not be considered eligible for any pension under this chapter based upon such covered employment with respect to any period for which such federal funds are not made available for the purposes of this chapter.

Approved December 22, 1965.