New York S 6408: Relates to eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain New York city emergency medical services personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19)

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S06408 Summary:

BILL NOS06408 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Relates to eligibility for unemployment benefits for certain New York city emergency medical services personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19); provides that such employees shall not be deprived of benefit payments by reason of COVID-19 quarantine.

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03/13/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6408

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eligibility for unemploy-
 ment benefits for certain New York city emergency medical services
 personnel under quarantine for coronavirus (COVID-19)

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 591 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
 3 2-a. COVID-19 quarantine. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law,
 4 any person who is employed by the city of New York or by a hospital
 5 within the city of New York whose duties are those of an emergency
 6 medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician (as those
 7 terms are defined in section three thousand one of the public health
 8 law) responding to calls for emergency medical services in the city of
 9 New York's 911 system, who is under mandatory or voluntary quarantine as
 10 a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19), shall not be deprived of benefit
 11 payments by reason of such quarantine. Claimants shall not be required
 12 to participate in reemployment services or use vacation time while under
 13 quarantine.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10886-01-5

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