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 ________________________________________________________________________ 4158 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 29, 2015 ___________ 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