Assembly Bill A698

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to providing additional unemployment insurance benefits

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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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2021-A698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3697
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §590, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10906, S8972

2021-A698 (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.

2021-A698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    698
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC, ENGLEBRIGHT, BARNWELL, BARRON, SIMON,
   GOTTFRIED, SEAWRIGHT -- 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.
                                                            LBD03490-01-1

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