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Assembly Bill A10906

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing additional unemployment insurance benefits

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2019-A10906 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8972
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §590, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A698, S3697

2019-A10906 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-A10906 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10906
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rozic) --
   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:

   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY,
 BEGINNING  AUGUST FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY UNTIL THE END OF THE COVID-
 19 STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY, AS DECLARED  PURSUANT  TO  EXECUTIVE  ORDER
 NUMBER TWO HUNDRED TWO OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY, A CLAIMANT'S WEEKLY BENE-
 FIT  AMOUNT  SHALL  BE  INCREASED  BY  SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS PER WEEK. THE
 ASSISTANCE PROVIDED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION MAY BE FUNDED BY  ANY  AVAIL-
 ABLE  FEDERAL  OR  STATE  EMERGENCY  RELIEF FUNDS AVAILABLE TO THE STATE
 AND/OR ANY FUNDS RECEIVED UPON REQUISITION FROM THE  UNEMPLOYMENT  TRUST
 FUND.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 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.
                                                            LBD17072-01-0

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