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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. SOLAGES, ORTIZ, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  regulations  promulgated
   for  systematic  and  sustained  efforts to find work for unemployment
   benefits

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law, as amended
 by section 12 of part O of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
 read as follows:
   2. Availability, capability, and work search.  No  benefits  shall  be
 payable  to any claimant who is not capable of work or who is not ready,
 willing and able to work in his or her usual employment or in any  other
 for  which he or she is reasonably fitted by training and experience and
 who is not actively seeking work. In order to be actively seeking work a
 claimant must be engaged in systematic and  sustained  efforts  to  find
 work.  The commissioner shall promulgate regulations defining systematic
 and sustained efforts to find work and setting standards for  the  proof
 of  work  search  efforts.  SUCH REGULATIONS SHALL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
 NEED FOR CLAIMANTS TO PROVIDE CHILD CARE FOR THEIR  CHILD  OR  CHILDREN,
 AND THE REGULATIONS SHALL ENSURE THAT SUCH CLAIMANTS ARE ABLE TO SATISFY
 THE STANDARDS FOR PROOF OF WORK SEARCH EFFORTS.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the same date as the reversion of
 subdivision 2 of section 591 of the labor law as provided in section  10
 of chapter 413 of the laws of 2003, as amended.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05050-01-9