Bill Text: NY A00698 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A00698 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00698-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 698 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 590 of the labor law is amended by 2 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, 4 beginning August first, two thousand twenty until the end of the COVID- 5 19 state disaster emergency, as declared pursuant to executive order 6 number two hundred two of two thousand twenty, a claimant's weekly bene- 7 fit amount shall be increased by six hundred dollars per week. The 8 assistance provided under this subdivision may be funded by any avail- 9 able federal or state emergency relief funds available to the state 10 and/or any funds received upon requisition from the unemployment trust 11 fund. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 13 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
