Bill Text: NY A04295 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing claimants collecting unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their unemployment benefits.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-30 - held for consideration in labor [A04295 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04295-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4295
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  claimants
          collecting  unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their
          unemployment benefits
          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 590 of the labor law, as amended
     2  by chapter 645 of the laws of 1951, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
     4  effective days for the purpose of benefit rights only if he has complied
     5  with the provisions of this article regarding the filing of  his  claim,
     6  including  the  filing  of a valid original claim, registered as totally
     7  unemployed or partially employed pursuant to section five hundred  nine-
     8  ty-a of this title, reported his subsequent employment and unemployment,
     9  and  reported  for  work or otherwise given notice of the continuance of
    10  his unemployment.
    11    § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 590-a to read as
    12  follows:
    13    § 590-a. Reductions in unemployment benefits due to part-time work. 1.
    14  Entitlement to benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of  law  to
    15  the  contrary  any claimant who accepts part-time work shall be eligible
    16  to collect partial unemployment pursuant to this section  provided  such
    17  claimant meets the criteria outlined in this section.
    18    2. Reporting part-time employment.  A claimant collecting unemployment
    19  who is paid for part-time employment while collecting unemployment shall
    20  be required to report during each compensable period the amount of money
    21  earned from such part-time work.
    22    3. Benefit rate. A claimant's unemployment benefit shall be reduced by
    23  fifty  percent of the part-time income during a compensable period, in a
    24  manner determined by the commissioner.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    4. Penalties for false or  inaccurate  reporting.  The  provisions  of
     2  section  five  hundred  ninety-four of this title shall control should a
     3  claimant inaccurately report or fail to report the amount  of  part-time
     4  wages earned during any compensable period.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law provided, however that the commissioner of  labor  may
     7  promulgate  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
     8  this act prior to such effective date.