Bill Text: NY S00306 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that spouses who voluntarily separate from employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military transfer shall be eligible for unemployment benefits.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - referred to labor [S00306 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00306-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 306 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the eligibility for unem- ployment benefits for individuals who voluntarily separate from employment to accompany a spouse who is the subject of a military transfer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 593 of the labor 2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read as follows: 3 (iv) where the spouse of the individual is a member of the armed forc- 4 es of the United States, the need for the individual to accompany such 5 individual's spouse (A) to a place from which it is impractical for such 6 individual to commute and (B) due to a change in location as a result of 7 a military transfer of the spouse. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02334-01-7
