Bill Text: NY A09231 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - referred to labor [A09231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09231-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9231
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the unemployment insurance
          law, increasing the maximum benefit rate for unemployment insurance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 518 of the labor
     2  law, as amended by section 1 of part O of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of
     3  2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  "Wages"  means  all remuneration paid, except that such term does
     5  not include remuneration paid to an employee by an employer after  eight
     6  thousand  five  hundred  dollars have been paid to such employee by such
     7  employer with respect to employment during  any  calendar  year,  except
     8  that  such  term does not include remuneration paid to an employee by an
     9  employer with respect to employment during any calendar  year  beginning
    10  with the first day of
    11                                          that exceeds
    12               January 2014                  $10,300
    13               January 2015                  $10,500
    14               January 2016                  $10,700
    15               January 2017                  [$10,900] $12,500
    16               January 2018                  [11,100
    17               January 2019                  $11,400
    18               January 2020                  $11,600
    19               January 2021                  $11,800
    20               January 2022                  $12,000
    21               January 2023                  $12,300
    22               January 2024                  $12,500
    23               January 2025                  $12,800
    24               January 2026                  $13,000
    25  and  each  year  thereafter  on  the  first  day of January that exceeds
    26  sixteen percent of the state's average annual wage as determined by  the
    27  commissioner  on  an annual basis pursuant to section five hundred twen-
    28  ty-nine of this article; provided, however,  that  in  calculating  such

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