Bill Text: NY S08231 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the inclusion of claims for unemployment insurance arising from the closure of an employer due to COVID-19 from being included in such employer's experience rating charges.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-18 - PRINT NUMBER 8231A [S08231 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S08231-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8231--A IN SENATE April 27, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, BOYLE, BROOKS, GAUGHRAN, HOYLMAN, KAPLAN, LITTLE, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, RANZENHOFER, 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 prohibiting the inclusion of claims for unemployment insurance arising from the closure of an employer due to COVID-19 from being included in such employer's expe- rience rating charges 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 581-a of the labor law, as amended 2 by chapter 617 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section five hundred eighty-one 4 of this title to the contrary, any employer whose employees receive 5 payments under this article and whose claims for unemployment insurance 6 arise due to the closure of the employer or a reduction in the workforce 7 of the employer for reasons related to novel coronavirus, COVID-19, or 8 due to a mandatory order of a government entity duly authorized to issue 9 such order to close such employer, on or after March twelfth, two thou- 10 sand twenty shall not have included in their experience rating charges 11 the amounts so paid to the employees from the fund. 12 4. The provisions of this section shall apply to an employer liable 13 for payments in lieu of contributions, but if the secretary of labor of 14 the United States finds that their application to such employer does not 15 meet the requirements of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, such 16 provisions shall be inoperative with respect to such employer, unless 17 and until such finding has been set aside pursuant to a final decision 18 issued in accordance with such judicial review proceedings as may be 19 instituted and completed under the provisions of section thirty-three 20 hundred ten of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16077-04-0