Bill Text: NY A01072 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the continuance of unemployment benefits for an individual who provides child care where reasonable efforts to secure alternative child care have been made.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-27 - advanced to third reading cal.416 [A01072 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01072-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1072
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. JAFFEE, LUPARDO, D'URSO, SIMON, SIMOTAS, GOTT-
          FRIED, ABINANTI, COLTON, JEAN-PIERRE,  M. L. MILLER,  WRIGHT,  TAYLOR,
          BARRON, DICKENS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, HEVESI -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Labor
        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to compelling family reasons
          and the continuance of unemployment benefits
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 593 of the labor
     2  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read as follows:
     3    (iv) the need for the individual to provide child care to the individ-
     4  ual's child if such individual has made  reasonable  efforts  to  secure
     5  alternative child care.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04783-01-9