Bill Text: NY A11064 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11064 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that compensation earned for training and serving as a poll worker during the 2020 general election shall not be the sole basis for any reduction in current or future unemployment benefits payable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-07 - referred to labor [A11064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11064-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11064

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     October 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simon) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  providing  that  compen-
          sation  earned  for  training  and serving as a poll worker during the
          2020 general election shall not be the sole basis for any reduction in
          current or future unemployment benefits payable

          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 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this
     4  section,  a  claimant  who  is  qualified  for benefits and certified in
     5  accordance with the provisions of this article shall not be denied  full
     6  benefits  payable  pursuant to this article solely because such claimant
     7  was compensated for service or training as a poll  worker  for  the  two
     8  thousand twenty general election during the period of declared emergency
     9  under  Executive  Order  202  of  2020  and  any extension thereof. Such
    10  compensation shall not be the basis for any reduction in benefits calcu-
    11  lated for any week that the claimant worked or trained as a poll  worker
    12  and  shall  not  be  the  basis  for any reduction in the calculation of
    13  future benefits during the pendency  of  the  declared  emergency  under
    14  Executive  Order  202 of 2020 and any extension thereof, including addi-
    15  tional  federally-mandated  pandemic  unemployment  assistance  benefits
    16  related to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17263-01-0