Assembly Bill A10507

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows a claimant who voluntarily separates from employment during the COVID-19 emergency to receive unemployment benefits

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  • 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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2019-A10507 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8462
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §593, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2336, S1601
2023-2024: A1189

2019-A10507 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a claimant who voluntarily separates from employment during the COVID-19 emergency to receive unemployment benefits.

2019-A10507 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10507
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to allowing a claimant who
   voluntarily separates from employment during the COVID-19 emergency to
   receive unemployment benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  593  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. VOLUNTARY SEPARATION DURING THE COVID-19  DECLARED  EMERGENCY.  A
 CLAIMANT SHALL NOT BE DISQUALIFIED FROM RECEIVING BENEFITS FOR VOLUNTARY
 SEPARATION FROM EMPLOYMENT DURING THE PERIOD OF DECLARED EMERGENCY UNDER
 EXECUTIVE ORDER 202 OF 2020, WHERE SUCH CLAIMANT HAS LEFT EMPLOYMENT DUE
 TO THE FEAR OF EXPOSURE TO COVID-19 WHILE EMPLOYED AT SUCH EMPLOYMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16447-01-0

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