Assembly Bill A5470

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the rapid employment assistance and counseling hub (REACH) program to dispatch a mobile unit to provide information, assistance and other services concerning unemployment compensation 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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2025-A5470 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §541, Lab L

2025-A5470 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the rapid employment assistance and counseling hub (REACH) program to dispatch a mobile unit to provide information, assistance and other services concerning unemployment compensation insurance at the request of a legislator or official of a municipality.

2025-A5470 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5470
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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  establishing  the  rapid
   employment assistance and counseling hub program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a  new  section  541  to
 read as follows:
   § 541. RAPID EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE AND COUNSELING HUB (REACH) PROGRAM.
 1.    AS  USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "MOBILE UNIT" MEANS A MOTORIZED
 VEHICLE OUTFITTED TO OPERATE AS A TRAVELING UNEMPLOYMENT SERVICE  CENTER
 TO PROVIDE IN-PERSON ASSISTANCE.
   2.  BY  JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
 ESTABLISH A RAPID  EMPLOYMENT  ASSISTANCE  AND  COUNSELING  HUB  (REACH)
 PROGRAM.  THE  PROGRAM  SHALL DISPATCH A MOBILE UNIT TO PROVIDE INFORMA-
 TION, ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER  SERVICES  CONCERNING  UNEMPLOYMENT  COMPEN-
 SATION  INSURANCE  UPON THE REQUEST OF A STATE LEGISLATOR OR AN OFFICIAL
 OF A MUNICIPALITY OR OTHER POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION  IN  THE  LEGISLATOR'S
 LEGISLATIVE  DISTRICT OR THE OFFICIAL'S MUNICIPALITY OR POLITICAL SUBDI-
 VISION FROM NINE A.M. TO FIVE P.M. FOR ONE TO FOUR CALENDAR DAYS.
   3. A MOBILE UNIT SHALL PROVIDE RESIDENTS OF THE RESPECTIVE  LOCALITIES
 WITH  AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WHO CAN:
   A. ADDRESS GENERAL QUESTIONS REGARDING THE  UNEMPLOYMENT  PROGRAM  AND
 BENEFITS; AND
   B.  ASSIST  WITH SPECIFIC CLAIM QUESTIONS, ISSUES, CONCERNS, AND TROU-
 BLESHOOTING, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (I) ASSESSING WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL IS LIKELY TO QUALIFY FOR UNEMPLOY-
 MENT COMPENSATION;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07366-01-5
 A. 5470                             2
 
              

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