Bill Text: NY A09332 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing claimants collecting unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their unemployment benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-11 - referred to labor [A09332 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09332-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9332
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 11, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  claimants
         collecting  unemployment to obtain part-time work without losing their
         unemployment benefits
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
    2  by chapter 645 of the laws of 1951, is amended to read as follows:
    3    1. Entitlement to benefits. A claimant shall be entitled to accumulate
    4  effective days for the purpose of benefit rights only if he has complied
    5  with the provisions of this article regarding the filing of  his  claim,
    6  including  the  filing  of a valid original claim, registered as totally
    7  unemployed OR PARTIALLY EMPLOYED PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED  NINE-
    8  TY-A OF THIS TITLE, reported his subsequent employment and unemployment,
    9  and  reported  for  work or otherwise given notice of the continuance of
   10  his unemployment.
   11    S 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 590-a to read as
   12  follows:
   13    S 590-A. REDUCTIONS IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS DUE TO PART-TIME WORK. 1.
   14  ENTITLEMENT TO BENEFITS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF  LAW  TO
   15  THE  CONTRARY  ANY CLAIMANT WHO ACCEPTS PART-TIME WORK SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
   16  TO COLLECT PARTIAL UNEMPLOYMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION  PROVIDED  SUCH
   17  CLAIMANT MEETS THE CRITERIA OUTLINED IN THIS SECTION.
   18    2. REPORTING PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT.  A CLAIMANT COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT
   19  WHO IS PAID FOR PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WHILE COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT SHALL
   20  BE REQUIRED TO REPORT DURING EACH COMPENSABLE PERIOD THE AMOUNT OF MONEY
   21  EARNED FROM SUCH PART-TIME WORK.
   22    3. BENEFIT RATE. A CLAIMANT'S UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT SHALL BE REDUCED BY
   23  FIFTY  PERCENT OF THE PART-TIME INCOME DURING A COMPENSABLE PERIOD, IN A
   24  MANNER DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   25    4. PENALTIES FOR FALSE OR  INACCURATE  REPORTING.  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
   26  SECTION  FIVE  HUNDRED  NINETY-FOUR OF THIS TITLE SHALL CONTROL SHOULD A
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14680-01-4
       A. 9332                             2
    1  CLAIMANT INACCURATELY REPORT OR FAIL TO REPORT THE AMOUNT  OF  PART-TIME
    2  WAGES EARNED DURING ANY COMPENSABLE PERIOD.
    3    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    4  have become a law provided, however that the commissioner of  labor  may
    5  promulgate  any rules or regulations necessary for the implementation of
    6  this act prior to such effective date.