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Assembly Bill A11019

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that the average annual wage and average weekly wage of the state of New York be adjusted for inflation each year

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2025-A11019 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §529, Lab L

2025-A11019 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that the average annual wage and average weekly wage of the state of New York, which determine the maximum cap for unemployment insurance benefits, be adjusted for inflation each year.

2025-A11019 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11019
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 21, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  indexing  unemployment
   benefits to inflation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 529 of the labor law, as added by section 3 of part
 O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, and subdivision  1  as  amended  by
 section  2  of  part KK of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 529. Average annual wage; average weekly  wage.    1.  The  "average
 annual  wage"  shall be the average annual wage of the state of New York
 for the previous calendar year as  determined  by  the  commissioner  no
 later  than  the  thirty-first day of May of each year, INCREASED BY THE
 RATE OF INFLATION, IF GREATER THAN ZERO, AS BASED ON THE CONSUMER  PRICE
 INDEX  FOR  THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR, AS REPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES
 BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.  For purposes of calculating "wages"  pursu-
 ant to paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section five hundred eighteen
 of  this title only, the "average annual wage" shall be calculated using
 the four most recent quarters of  published  New  York  state  quarterly
 census of employment and wages data.
   2.  The  "average weekly wage" shall be the average weekly wage of the
 state of New York for the previous calendar year, as determined  by  the
 commissioner  no  later  than  the thirty-first day of May of each year,
 INCREASED BY THE RATE OF INFLATION, IF GREATER THAN ZERO,  AS  BASED  ON
 THE  CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR, AS REPORTED BY
 THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15609-01-6

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