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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4910--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 9, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of "employ-
          ment" for the purposes of unemployment insurance
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 511 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 23 to read as follows:
     3    23.  Owner-employee.  (a)  The term "employment" shall not include the
     4  services of the sole employee of an employer  which  is  a  corporation,
     5  limited liability company or partnership, when such sole employee is the
     6  sole  shareholder of such corporation, a member of the limited liability
     7  company, or a partner in such partnership; provided, however, that  such
     8  sole shareholder, member, or partner may opt-in to unemployment coverage
     9  by  filing an application with the commissioner and paying the appropri-
    10  ate unemployment contributions.
    11    (b) The commissioner shall promulgate regulations describing the  form
    12  and  content  of  the opt-in application which shall include information
    13  regarding the effect and consequence of the opt-in.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02529-04-5