Bill Text: NY A04158 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that spouses who voluntarily separate from employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military transfer shall be eligible for unemployment benefits.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-07-08 - enacting clause stricken [A04158 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04158-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4158
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, ABBATE, SKOUFIS, GOTTFRIED, SCHIM-
MINGER, COLTON, CAHILL, TENNEY, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. BUCHWALD, CERETTO, COOK, DAVILA, DenDEKKER, GIGLIO, HIKIND,
MOSLEY, PERRY, RIVERA, ROBINSON, SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the eligibility for unem-
ployment benefits for individuals who voluntarily separate from
employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military
transfer
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) WHERE THE SPOUSE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS A MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORC-
4 ES OF THE UNITED STATES, THE NEED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TO ACCOMPANY SUCH
5 INDIVIDUAL'S SPOUSE (A) TO A PLACE FROM WHICH IT IS IMPRACTICAL FOR SUCH
6 INDIVIDUAL TO COMMUTE AND (B) DUE TO A CHANGE IN LOCATION AS A RESULT OF
7 A MILITARY TRANSFER OF THE SPOUSE.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08248-01-5
