Provides that to achieve cost savings to businesses and the state, improve decision timeliness, and minimize wrong-sized payments to eligible beneficiaries the department of labor shall obtain current employment and income information from a third-party provider, supplementing current state wage reporting files from the department of taxation and finance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7371
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 11, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, MARTINS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to wage reporting in the
unemployment insurance law
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 502 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
2 undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
3 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, to achieve cost savings
4 to businesses and the state, improve decision timeliness, and minimize
5 wrong-sized payments to eligible beneficiaries the department shall
6 obtain current employment and income information from a third-party
7 provider, supplementing current state wage reporting files from the
8 department of taxation and finance.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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