Bill Text: NY A06682 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the preservation of a claimant's eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits while the claimant is studying to become a certified teacher or a registered professional nurse in a training program that does not take more than 48 months to complete.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 10-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-01 - held for consideration in labor [A06682 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A06682-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6682 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 11, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TOWNSEND, BUTLER, CROUCH, KOLB, P. LOPEZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, SAYWARD, THIELE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the preservation of eligi- bility for unemployment insurance benefits for persons participating in training programs leading to becoming a registered professional nurse or certified teacher THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 599 of the labor 2 law, as amended by chapter 593 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 (c) the training is offered by a competent and reliable agency and (1) 5 does not require more than twenty-four months to complete; OR (2) IS 6 DESIGNED TO EDUCATE THE CLAIMANT TO BECOME A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL 7 NURSE PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE OF THE EDUCATION LAW 8 OR A CERTIFIED TEACHER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIXTY-ONE OF THE EDUCATION 9 LAW AND DOES NOT REQUIRE MORE THAN FORTY-EIGHT MONTHS TO COMPLETE; and 10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to indi- 11 viduals approved for training on or after the effective date of this 12 act. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09365-01-9