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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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698
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, ENGLEBRIGHT, BARNWELL, BARRON, SIMON,
GOTTFRIED, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Labor
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.
LBD03490-01-1
