Bill Text: NY A02336 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a claimant who voluntarily separates from employment during the COVID-19 emergency to receive unemployment benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A02336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02336-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2336

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACOBSON, SIMON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to allowing  a  claimant  who
          voluntarily separates from employment during the COVID-19 emergency to
          receive unemployment benefits

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

     1    Section 1. Section 593 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  Voluntary  separation  during the COVID-19 declared emergency. A
     4  claimant shall not be disqualified from receiving benefits for voluntary
     5  separation from employment during the period of declared emergency under
     6  Executive Order 202 of 2020, where such claimant has left employment due
     7  to the fear of exposure to COVID-19 while employed at such employment.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05944-01-1