Bill Text: NY S06791 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Specifies contribution rates for employers to the unemployment insurance fund in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, regardless of what the current actual size of the fund index is; sets the unemployment insurance maximum benefit rate.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-5)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-25 - referred to labor [S06791 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06791-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6791--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. KAPLAN, BIAGGI, BROOKS, COONEY, GAUGHRAN, HARCKHAM,
          KAMINSKY, KENNEDY, MANNION, MARTUCCI, REICHLIN-MELNICK, THOMAS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Labor  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to employer contributions  to
          the unemployment insurance fund and the unemployment insurance maximum
          benefit rate

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 581-a of the labor law is amended by adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eight-
     4  y-one  of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size
     5  of the fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer  in
     6  the two thousand twenty-two fiscal year shall be the percentage shown in
     7  the  column  headed  by  the  size of the fund index at two and one-half
     8  percent but less than three percent and on the same line with his or her
     9  negative or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to  subdivi-
    10  sion  two of section five hundred eighty-one of this title, unless using
    11  the actual size of the fund index  would  result  in  a  lower  rate  of
    12  contribution  for  an  employer,  in  which  case such employer shall be
    13  liable for such lower rate of contribution.
    14    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred  eighty-one
    15  of this title to the contrary and notwithstanding the actual size of the
    16  fund index, the rate of contribution for a qualified employer in the two
    17  thousand  twenty-three  fiscal year shall be the percentage shown in the
    18  column headed by the size of the fund index at two percent but less than
    19  two and one-half percent and on the same line with his or  her  negative
    20  or positive employer's account percentage pursuant to subdivision two of
    21  section  five  hundred eighty-one of this title, unless using the actual

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10865-02-1
        S. 6791--A                          2

     1  size of the fund index would result in a lower rate of contribution  for
     2  an  employer, in which case such employer shall be liable for such lower
     3  rate of contribution.
     4    §  2.  Subdivision  5  of  section  590 of the labor law is amended by
     5  adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows:
     6    (b-1) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of this subdivision,  the  maximum
     7  benefit  shall  be  forty  percent of the average weekly wage, until the
     8  first Monday of October, two thousand twenty-two, when the maximum bene-
     9  fit amount shall be forty-two percent of the average weekly wage.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    11  section  two of this act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it
    12  shall have become a law and shall apply to new claims filed on or  after
    13  such  date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal
    14  of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of  this  act
    15  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized to be made and completed on or
    16  before such effective date.