Bill Text: NY S08246 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits unemployment benefits in the case of voluntary separation from employment during the COVID-19 emergency for persons over age 65 or persons with health conditions which make them at risk where the claimant has a reasonable belief that their working environment is unsafe.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-24 - PRINT NUMBER 8246A [S08246 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08246-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8246

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 permitting unemployment
          benefits in the case of voluntary separation  from  employment  during
          the COVID-19 emergency

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

     1    Section 1. Section 593 of the labor law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  Voluntary  separation  during the COVID-19 declared emergency. A
     4  claimant shall not be disqualified from receiving benefits for voluntary
     5  separation from employment during the period of declared emergency under
     6  Executive Order 202, where such claimant; (a) is sixty-five years of age
     7  or older; (b) has an underlying health condition that puts such employee
     8  especially at-risk for severe illness from COVID-19, including, but  not
     9  limited to chronic pulmonary, lung, liver or kidney disease; or (c) such
    10  claimant  lives  with  a family member who is sixty-five years of age or
    11  older or who has an underlying condition  that  puts  them  at-risk  for
    12  severe  illness  due  to  COVID-19  and  such employment would result in
    13  potential exposure to COVID-19.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16179-01-0