Bill Text: NY A06682 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6682
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 11, 2009
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       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.
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