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Feb 12, 2010 |
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Senate Bill S6835
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A7416
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง591, Lab L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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A2831
2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6835 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the labor law, in relation to providing unemployment insurance benefits to certain part-time claimants PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : Removes the current prohibition on part-time employment to receive unemployment benefits. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Allows any claimant who is engaged in part-time employment earning $15,000 or less per year, to receive unemployment insurance benefits in the event of involuntary separation from their primary employment. JUSTIFICATION : Currently section 591 precludes individuals from receiving unemployment insurance benefits unless totally unemployed. This bill would allow individuals in part-time employment earning $15,000 or less annually to receive unemployment benefits should they become involuntarily separated from their primary employment. This limited income received through part-time employment is clearly not adequate to sustain an individual or family if their primary employment is lost.
2009-S6835 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6835 I N S E N A T E February 12, 2010 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BONACIC -- 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 providing unemployment insurance benefits to certain part-time claimants THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 1. Unemployment. Benefits, except as provided in section five hundred ninety-one-a of this title, shall be paid only to a claimant who is totally unemployed and who is unable to engage in his OR HER usual employment or in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably fitted by training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE OF SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH SERVICE EARNS AN ANNUAL SALARY OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 446 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows: 1. Unemployment. Benefits shall be paid only to a claimant who is totally unemployed and who is unable to engage in his OR HER usual employment or in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably fitted by training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE OF SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH SERVICE EARNS AN ANNUAL SALARY OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments made to subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law made by section one of EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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