Bill Text: NY A03068 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that notice of initial determinations for unemployment benefits be provided to claimants within 30 days of such claimant furnishing all necessary documentation, and if the commissioner is unable to issue a determination within such time frame they shall inform the claimant of the new estimated time frame for the issuance of a determination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - referred to labor [A03068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A03068-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3068

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring that  notice  of
          initial determinations for unemployment benefits be provided

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 597 of the labor law, as added  by
     2  chapter  705  of  the  laws of 1944 and renumbered by chapter 663 of the
     3  laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. Issuance. The validity of the claim  and  the  amount  of  benefits
     5  payable to the claimant shall be determined in accordance with the regu-
     6  lations  and  procedure  established  by the commissioner and, when such
     7  determination is issued by the commissioner,  it  shall  be  deemed  the
     8  initial  determination  of  the  claim. Notwithstanding any law, rule or
     9  regulation to the contrary, the commissioner  shall  provide  notice  to
    10  each claimant of such initial determination of approval or denial of the
    11  claim  no  later  than  thirty days after the claimant has furnished all
    12  information required under paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  two  of  this
    13  section.  If  the commissioner is unable to issue a determination within
    14  such prescribed time frame due to  exigent  circumstances,  such  notice
    15  shall  inform the claimant of the new estimated time frame for the issu-
    16  ance of a determination, the retroactive  effective  date  the  claimant
    17  would  receive  benefits  from  if  approved,  and  how the claimant may
    18  confirm the status of the determination if it is not received by the new
    19  estimated time frame.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05529-01-5