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
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