Bill Text: NY S03623 | 2021-2022 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-11-11 - SIGNED CHAP.610 [S03623 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S03623-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3623 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 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. LBD07674-01-1
