Bill Text: NY S01299 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find work for unemployment benefits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A966 [S01299 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01299-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1299 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find work for unemployment benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended 2 by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the labor law relating to 3 regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find 4 work for unemployment benefits, as proposed in legislative bills numbers 5 S.2231 and A.3033, is amended to read as follows: 6 2. Availability, capability, and work search. No benefits shall be 7 payable to any claimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready, 8 willing and able to work in his or her usual employment or in any other 9 for which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience and 10 who is not actively seeking work. In order to be actively seeking work a 11 claimant must be engaged in systematic and sustained efforts to find 12 work. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations defining systematic 13 and sustained efforts to find work and setting standards for the proof 14 of work search efforts. Such regulations shall take into account the 15 need for claimants to provide child care for their child or children[,16and the regulations shall ensure that such claimants are able to satisfy17the standards for proof of work search efforts]. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 19 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the labor law relating 20 to regulations promulgated for systematic and sustained efforts to find 21 work for unemployment benefits, as proposed in legislative bills numbers 22 S.2231 and A.3033, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07136-01-1