Bill Text: NY S00221 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Extends the eligibility period for unemployment compensation for workers who were not working due to a disability for a period not to exceed two years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00221 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S00221-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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221
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eligibility of disabled
claimant for unemployment insurance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 527 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 589 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. Disability. In the case of a claimant who did not file a valid
4 original claim solely because the claimant was not paid sufficient
5 remuneration and who received workers' compensation payments or any
6 benefits paid pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law during
7 the base period specified in subdivision one of section five hundred
8 twenty of this article, said period shall be extended. The term of the
9 extension shall be equivalent to the number of calendar quarters during
10 which the claimant received such payments, but shall not exceed two
11 [calendar quarters] YEARS.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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