Bill Text: NY A03053 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specifies contribution rates for employers to the unemployment insurance fund in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, regardless of what the current actual size of the fund index is; sets the unemployment insurance maximum benefit rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-15 - enacting clause stricken [A03053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03053-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3053

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, SILLITTI, JACOBSON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to employer contributions  to
          the unemployment insurance fund and the unemployment insurance maximum
          benefit rate

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 581-a of the labor law is amended by adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eight-
     4  y-one  of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size
     5  of the fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer  in
     6  the  two  thousand twenty-four fiscal year shall be the percentage shown
     7  in the column headed by the size of the fund index at two  and  one-half
     8  percent but less than three percent and on the same line with his or her
     9  negative  or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to subdivi-
    10  sion two of section five hundred eighty-one of this title, unless  using
    11  the  actual  size  of  the  fund  index  would result in a lower rate of
    12  contribution for an employer, in  which  case  such  employer  shall  be
    13  liable for such lower rate of contribution.
    14    (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eighty-one
    15  of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size of the
    16  fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer in the two
    17  thousand twenty-five fiscal year shall be the percentage  shown  in  the
    18  column headed by the size of the fund index at two percent but less than
    19  two  and  one-half percent and on the same line with his or her negative
    20  or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to subdivision two of
    21  section five hundred eighty-one of this title, unless using  the  actual
    22  size  of the fund index would result in a lower rate of contribution for
    23  an employer, in which case such employer shall be liable for such  lower
    24  rate of contribution.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06334-01-3
        A. 3053                             2

     1    §  2.  Subdivision  5  of  section  590 of the labor law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows:
     3    (b-1)  Notwithstanding  paragraph (b) of this subdivision, the maximum
     4  benefit shall be forty percent of the average  weekly  wage,  until  the
     5  first  Monday  of  October,  two  thousand twenty-four, when the maximum
     6  benefit amount shall be forty-two percent of the average weekly wage.
     7    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
     8  section  two of this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it
     9  shall have become a law and shall apply to new claims filed on or  after
    10  such  date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal
    11  of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of  this  act
    12  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized to be made and completed on or
    13  before such effective date.