New York A 9555: Extends the duration of unemployment insurance benefits

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A09555 Summary:

BILL NOA09555 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09383

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SPONSORValdez

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COSPNSRForrest, Burdick, Moreno, Shrestha

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §590, Lab L

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Provides that unemployment insurance benefits shall not be paid in an amount greater than thirty times the claimant's weekly benefit rate in any benefit year, subject to certain exceptions.

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BILL NOA09555 

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01/14/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9555

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to extending the duration of
 unemployment insurance benefits

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 590 of the labor law, as amended
 2 by chapter 277 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 3 4. Duration. Benefits shall not be paid in an amount greater than
 4 [twenty-six] thirty times the claimant's weekly benefit rate in any
 5 benefit year, except as provided in section six hundred one and subdivi-
 6 sion two of section five hundred ninety-nine of this [chapter] title.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14203-01-5

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