Relates to unemployment insurance benefits for flight attendants during the COVID-19 state of emergency; provides a person employed as a flight attendant shall be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits during the declared state of emergency relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), whether or not such person is domiciled in the state, if such person is employed by an airline company doing business in the state of New York; establishes that if a flight attendant is fined or had to forfeit unemployment insurance benefits after a hearing due to residence ineligibility, they shall be reimbursed for the fine and unemployment insurance benefits.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6235
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 16, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 unemployment insurance
benefits for flight attendants during the COVID-19 state of emergency;
and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there-
of
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 591-b to
2 read as follows:
3 § 591-b. Eligibility for flight attendants during the COVID-19 state
4 of emergency. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, a
5 person employed as a flight attendant shall be eligible for unemployment
6 insurance benefits pursuant to this article during the declared state of
7 emergency relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), whether or not
8 such person resides within the state, if such person is employed by an
9 airline company doing business in the state of New York. The amount of
10 unemployment insurance benefits awarded shall be equal to the amount
11 such person would have received if such person were not previously
12 denied due to residency requirements, provided, however, such person
13 shall provide proof of prior eligibility but for such person's residen-
14 cy. If such person was fined and/or had to forfeit unemployment insur-
15 ance benefits after a hearing pursuant to this article due to residency
16 ineligibility, such person shall be reimbursed for such fine and any
17 forfeited unemployment insurance benefits.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
19 provisions of this act shall expire and be deemed repealed one hundred
20 eighty days after the expiration of the declared state of emergency
21 relating to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19); and provided, further,
22 that the commissioner of labor shall notify the legislative bill draft-
23 ing commission upon the occurrence of the expiration of the state disas-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ter emergency declared by executive order number 202 and any further
2 amendments or modifications, and as may be further extended pursuant to
3 section 28 of the executive law, in order that the commission may main-
4 tain an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of
5 the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the
6 provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
7 public officers law.
