Requires the commissioner of labor to adopt regulations prescribing the methodology for establishing an annual employment statistics index which shows unemployment rates of hamlets and unincorporated villages of the state; directs such commissioner shall prepare and submit an annual report on such index.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6122
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the establish-
ment of an annual employment statistics index for unemployment rates
of hamlets and villages of the state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
3 13-a. Shall adopt regulations prescribing the methodology for estab-
4 lishing an annual employment statistics index which shows the rates of
5 unemployment specifically for the hamlets and unincorporated villages of
6 the state.
7 a. Such an index shall be in addition to any statistics or indexes
8 already compiled, recorded or published by the department.
9 b. The commissioner shall prepare and submit to the governor, the
10 temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on or
11 before the thirtieth day of September an annual report on the index
12 required by this subdivision. Such report shall describe in detail the
13 unemployment rates of the hamlets and unincorporated villages of the
14 state. The report shall consider the comparison of such rates to the
15 larger municipalities which contain such hamlets or villages, and the
16 need for improved use by unemployed workers within such hamlets and
17 villages of publicly funded programs for employment training and employ-
18 ment-related services.
19 c. The annual report and statistics index required by this subdivision
20 shall be made available to the public.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed-
22 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
23 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
24 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
25 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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