Bill Text: NY A07416 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a part-time employee to be eligible for unemployment insurance if such claimant earns an annual salary or remuneration equal to or less than fifteen thousand dollars for such part-time employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-25 - held for consideration in labor [A07416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07416-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7416
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 6, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to providing unemployment
         insurance benefits to certain part-time claimants
         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 591 of the labor law, as amended
    2  by chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    3    1. Unemployment. Benefits, except as provided in section five  hundred
    4  ninety-one-a  of  this  title,  shall  be paid only to a claimant who is
    5  totally unemployed and who is unable to  engage  in  his  OR  HER  usual
    6  employment  or  in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably fitted by
    7  training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
    8  article shall not be denied such benefits pursuant to  this  subdivision
    9  or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
   10  on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE
   11  OF  SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH SERVICE
   12  EARNS AN ANNUAL SALARY OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO  OR  LESS  THAN  FIFTEEN
   13  THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   14    S  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section 591 of the labor law, as amended by
   15  chapter 446 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   16    1. Unemployment. Benefits shall be paid only  to  a  claimant  who  is
   17  totally  unemployed  and  who  is  unable  to engage in his OR HER usual
   18  employment or in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably  fitted  by
   19  training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
   20  article  shall  not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision
   21  or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
   22  on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United States OR BECAUSE
   23  OF SUCH CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE, WHO BY SUCH  SERVICE
   24  EARNS  AN  ANNUAL  SALARY  OR REMUNERATION EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN FIFTEEN
   25  THOUSAND DOLLARS.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    2  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments  made
    3  to  subdivision 1 of section 591 of the labor law made by section one of
    4  this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdi-
    5  vision  pursuant  to  section  10 of chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, as
    6  amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of  this  act
    7  shall take effect.