Specifies contribution rates for employers to the unemployment insurance fund in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, regardless of what the current actual size of the fund index is; sets the unemployment insurance maximum benefit rate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3053
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SILLITTI, JACOBSON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to employer contributions to
the unemployment insurance fund and the unemployment insurance maximum
benefit rate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 581-a of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eight-
4 y-one of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size
5 of the fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer in
6 the two thousand twenty-four fiscal year shall be the percentage shown
7 in the column headed by the size of the fund index at two and one-half
8 percent but less than three percent and on the same line with his or her
9 negative or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to subdivi-
10 sion two of section five hundred eighty-one of this title, unless using
11 the actual size of the fund index would result in a lower rate of
12 contribution for an employer, in which case such employer shall be
13 liable for such lower rate of contribution.
14 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eighty-one
15 of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size of the
16 fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer in the two
17 thousand twenty-five fiscal year shall be the percentage shown in the
18 column headed by the size of the fund index at two percent but less than
19 two and one-half percent and on the same line with his or her negative
20 or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to subdivision two of
21 section five hundred eighty-one of this title, unless using the actual
22 size of the fund index would result in a lower rate of contribution for
23 an employer, in which case such employer shall be liable for such lower
24 rate of contribution.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 3053 2
1 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor law is amended by
2 adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows:
3 (b-1) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of this subdivision, the maximum
4 benefit shall be forty percent of the average weekly wage, until the
5 first Monday of October, two thousand twenty-four, when the maximum
6 benefit amount shall be forty-two percent of the average weekly wage.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
8 section two of this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it
9 shall have become a law and shall apply to new claims filed on or after
10 such date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal
11 of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act
12 on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or
13 before such effective date.
