Bill Text: NY A07788 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-01 - print number 7788a [A07788 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07788-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7788--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 21, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, McDONALD, JONES, FAHY, THIELE, MANKTE- LOW, GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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. LBD10865-03-1A. 7788--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.
