Assembly Bill A9231

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1117
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§518 & 590, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2245
2011-2012: S673
2013-2014: S36
2017-2018: A1100, S431
2019-2020: A2158
2021-2022: A7150
2023-2024: A7911

2015-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance.

2015-A9231 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9231

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the unemployment insurance
  law, increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 518 of the labor
law, as amended by section 1 of part O of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of
2013, is amended to read as follows:
  (a)  "Wages"  means  all remuneration paid, except that such term does
not include remuneration paid to an employee by an employer after  eight
thousand  five  hundred  dollars have been paid to such employee by such
employer with respect to employment during  any  calendar  year,  except
that  such  term does not include remuneration paid to an employee by an
employer with respect to employment during any calendar  year  beginning
with the first day of
                                        that exceeds
             January 2014                  $10,300
             January 2015                  $10,500
             January 2016                  $10,700
             January 2017                  [$10,900] $12,500
             January 2018                  [11,100
             January 2019                  $11,400
             January 2020                  $11,600
             January 2021                  $11,800
             January 2022                  $12,000
             January 2023                  $12,300
             January 2024                  $12,500
             January 2025                  $12,800
             January 2026                  $13,000
and  each  year  thereafter  on  the  first  day of January that exceeds
sixteen percent of the state's average annual wage as determined by  the
commissioner  on  an annual basis pursuant to section five hundred twen-
ty-nine of this article; provided, however,  that  in  calculating  such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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