Bill Text: NY A10817 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Excludes claims for unemployment insurance arising as a result of an employer closing his or her business because of novel coronavirus COVID-19, from an employer's experience rating charges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - referred to labor [A10817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10817-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10817

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Manktelow)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to excluding claims for unem-
          ployment insurance arising as a result of an employer closing  his  or
          her business because of novel coronavirus COVID-19, from an employer's
          experience rating charges

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 581 of the  labor
     2  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 7 to read as follows:
     3    (7)  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, any employer whose
     4  employees receive payments under this article and whose claims for unem-
     5  ployment insurance arise as a result of the closure of an  employer  for
     6  any  reason  related to novel coronavirus, COVID-19, or as a result of a
     7  mandatory order of a government entity to close such employer, shall not
     8  have included in their experience rating charges the amounts so paid  on
     9  account.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16202-01-0
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