Assembly Bill A1799

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for unemployment compensation benefits

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A1799 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§522 & 591, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A757
2011-2012: A79
2013-2014: A1280
2017-2018: A2094
2019-2020: A333
2021-2022: A1136

2015-A1799 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for eligibility for unemployment insurance benefits for part-time municipal elected officials who lose their primary income; provides claimant would receive benefits which equal the difference between the weekly benefit amount and the weekly earnings from his/her weekly salary as an elected official.

2015-A1799 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1799

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, CAHILL, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
  of A. HOOPER, LIFTON, RIVERA, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Labor

AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to providing unemployment
  insurance benefits to certain part-time elected officials

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 522 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 720 of
the laws of 1953, is amended to read as follows:
  S 522. Total unemployment. "Total unemployment" means the  total  lack
of  any  employment  on  any  day. The term "employment" as used in this
section means any employment including that not defined  in  this  title
BUT  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE  SERVICE  AS  AN  ELECTED  COUNTY  OR MUNICIPAL
OFFICIAL.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 591 of the  labor  law,  as  amended  by
chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  Unemployment. Benefits, except as provided in section five hundred
ninety-one-a of this title, shall be paid only  to  a  claimant  who  is
totally  unemployed  and  who  is  unable  to engage in his OR HER usual
employment or in any other for which he OR SHE is reasonably  fitted  by
training and experience. A claimant who is receiving benefits under this
article  shall  not be denied such benefits pursuant to this subdivision
or to subdivision two of this section because of such claimant's service
on a grand or petit jury of any state or of the United  States  OR  SUCH
CLAIMANT'S SERVICE AS AN ELECTED COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER  THAT  SUCH  CLAIMANT'S  PAY FOR SERVICE AS AN ELECTED COUNTY OR
MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL IS LESS THAN THE PRODUCT OF THE  MINIMUM  WAGE  TIMES
TWO  THOUSAND HOURS PER YEAR. SUCH CLAIMANT SERVING AS AN ELECTED COUNTY
OR MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL WHILE RECEIVING  UNEMPLOYMENT  INSURANCE  BENEFITS
SHALL ONLY RECEIVE THE AMOUNT OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WEEKLY BENE-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04996-01-5

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