Bill Text: NY S08972 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing additional unemployment insurance benefits; provides an additional six hundred dollars per week to unemployment benefits until the end of the COVID-19 state disaster emergency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08972 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08972-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8972 IN SENATE September 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing additional unem- ployment insurance benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, 4 beginning August first, two thousand twenty until the end of the COVID- 5 19 state disaster emergency, as declared pursuant to executive order 6 number two hundred two of two thousand twenty, a claimant's weekly bene- 7 fit amount shall be increased by six hundred dollars per week. The 8 assistance provided under this subdivision may be funded by any avail- 9 able federal or state emergency relief funds available to the state 10 and/or any funds received upon requisition from the unemployment trust 11 fund. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 13 have been in full force and effect on and after August 1, 2020. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17072-01-0