Bill Text: NY A05828 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain New York city emergency medical services personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19); provides that such employees shall not be deprived of benefit payments by reason of COVID-19 quarantine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A05828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05828-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5828

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eligibility for  unemploy-
          ment  benefits  for  certain  New York city emergency medical services
          personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19)

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  591  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. COVID-19 quarantine. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law,
     4  any person who is employed by the city of New  York  or  by  a  hospital
     5  within  the  city  of  New  York  whose duties are those of an emergency
     6  medical technician or advanced emergency medical  technician  (as  those
     7  terms  are  defined  in  section three thousand one of the public health
     8  law) responding to calls for emergency medical services in the  city  of
     9  New York's 911 system, who is under mandatory or voluntary quarantine as
    10  a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19), shall not be deprived of benefit
    11  payments  by  reason of such quarantine. Claimants shall not be required
    12  to participate in reemployment services or use vacation time while under
    13  quarantine.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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