Bill Text: NY A00966 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find work for unemployment benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-02-16 - signed chap.26 [A00966 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00966-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           966

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  regulations  promulgated
          for  systematic  and  sustained  efforts to find work for unemployment
          benefits

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended
     2  by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending  the  labor  law  relating  to
     3  regulations  promulgated  for  systematic  and sustained efforts to find
     4  work for unemployment benefits, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
     5  S.2231 and A.3033, is amended to read as follows:
     6    2. Availability, capability, and work search.  No  benefits  shall  be
     7  payable  to any claimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready,
     8  willing and able to work in his or her usual employment or in any  other
     9  for  which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience and
    10  who is not actively seeking work. In order to be actively seeking work a
    11  claimant must be engaged in systematic and  sustained  efforts  to  find
    12  work.  The commissioner shall promulgate regulations defining systematic
    13  and sustained efforts to find work and setting standards for  the  proof
    14  of  work  search  efforts.  Such regulations shall take into account the
    15  need for claimants to provide child care for their child  or  children[,
    16  and the regulations shall ensure that such claimants are able to satisfy
    17  the standards for proof of work search efforts].
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    19  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the labor law  relating
    20  to  regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find
    21  work for unemployment benefits, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
    22  S.2231 and A.3033, takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07136-01-1