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S00173 Summary:

BILL NOS00173 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03582

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY,
 HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, LIU, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA,
 SERRANO, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §591-b, Lab L; add §95-l, St Fin L; add Art 15 §§330 - 334, §1816, Tax L

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Establishes an unemployment bridge program and an unemployment bridge program fund to provide wage replacement to workers that do not qualify for unemployment insurance or other worker wage assistance programs and who have lost a major source of income due to lost work (Part A); establishes the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" creating a tax on digital advertising services (Part B).

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BILL NOS00173 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 173

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ,
 GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACK-
 SON, KAVANAGH, LIU, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS,
 SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing the unemploy-
 ment bridge program; to amend the state finance law, in relation to
 establishing the unemployment bridge program fund; and making an
 appropriation therefor (Part A); and to amend the tax law, in relation
 to enacting the "Digital Ad Tax Act (DATA)" (Part B)

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

 1 Section 1. This act enacts into law major components of legislation
 2 relating to the use of funds of the state. Each component is wholly
 3 contained within a Part identified as Parts A and B. The effective date
 4 for each particular provision contained within such Part is set forth in
 5 the last section of such Part. Any provision in any section contained
 6 within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which makes a
 7 reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with that
 8 particular component, shall be deemed to mean and refer to the corre-
 9 sponding section of the Part in which it is found. Section three of this
 10 act sets forth the general effective date of this act.

 11 PART A

 12 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "unemploy-
 13 ment bridge program act".
 14 § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 591-b to read as
 15 follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00658-01-5

 S. 173 2

 1 § 591-b. Unemployment bridge program. 1. Definitions. As used in this
 2 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 3 (a) "Total unemployment" means a month in which the applicant has no
 4 employment earnings for at least three of the four full calendar weeks
 5 in that month. "Total unemployment" shall also include an individual who
 6 has earned less than four hundred dollars in a month subsequent to an
 7 initial month of total unemployment.
 8 (b) "Partial unemployment" means a month in which earnings are sixty
 9 percent less than an applicant's average monthly earnings during the
 10 prior taxable year, or, if the applicant did not have earnings in the
 11 prior taxable year, the average monthly earnings in the current year
 12 prior to the loss of work-related earnings.
 13 (c) "Non-payroll check" means a personal check, check issued from a
 14 business's bank account, or other check that does not indicate the hours
 15 worked, pay rate, deductions, or tax withholdings or otherwise comply
 16 with the requirements of section one hundred ninety-five of this chap-
 17 ter.
 18 (d) "Domestic worker" shall have the same meaning as defined in subdi-
 19 vision sixteen of section two o