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A04854 Summary:

BILL NOA04854
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORRamos
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 21, Lab L
 
Requires the commissioner of labor to adopt regulations prescribing the methodology for establishing an annual employment statistics index which shows unemployment rates of hamlets and unincorporated villages of the state; directs such commissioner shall prepare and submit an annual report on such index.
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A04854 Actions:

BILL NOA04854
 
02/23/2023referred to labor
01/03/2024referred to labor
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A04854 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A4854
 
SPONSOR: Ramos
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the establish- ment of an annual employment statistics index for unemployment rates of hamlets and villages of the state   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This bill would require the Department of Labor to report unemployment statistics on hamlet and village levels.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: This bill would make available unemployment statistics from the Depart- ment of Labor for the purpose of allocating funds from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Fund.   JUSTIFICATION: The Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) began in 1983 with a $50 million federal appropriation. The program was created by Congress to help meet the needs of hungry and homeless people throughout the United States and its territories by allocating federal funds for the provision of food and shelter. Program funds are used to provide the following: food, in the form of served meals or groceries; lodging in a mass shel- ter or hotel; payment of one month's rent or mortgage payment; payment of one month's utility bill; minimal repairs to allow a mass feeding or sheltering facility to function during the program year; and fund equip- ment purchases necessary to feed or shelter people. The National Board awards funds to jurisdictions based upon high unem- ployment rates. The New York State Department of Labor (DOL) regularly reports at-large employment statistics at the town and incorporated village level. Towns in Long Island are frequently bigger than counties in the rest of the state. This at-large system fails to calculate employment statistics for hamlets within the larger town borders, making hamlets with high unemployment, or "poverty pockets", ineligible for federal funding under the EFSP. The unintended result is that town communities that would otherwise be eligible for EFSP funding lose access to these vital federal dollars. This bill seeks to remedy this problem by directing the DOL to collect employment statistics at the hamlet level.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A5792 of 2021-22 referred to labor   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Undetermined.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeeding the date on which it shall become law. .Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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A04854 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4854
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
 
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring  the  establish-
          ment  of  an annual employment statistics index for unemployment rates
          of hamlets and villages of the state
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  21  of  the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 13-a to read as follows:
     3    13-a. Shall adopt regulations prescribing the methodology  for  estab-
     4  lishing  an  annual employment statistics index which shows the rates of
     5  unemployment specifically for the hamlets and unincorporated villages of
     6  the state.
     7    a. Such an index shall be in addition to  any  statistics  or  indexes
     8  already compiled, recorded or published by the department.
     9    b.  The  commissioner  shall  prepare  and submit to the governor, the
    10  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on  or
    11  before  the  thirtieth  day  of  September an annual report on the index
    12  required by this subdivision. Such report shall describe in  detail  the
    13  unemployment  rates  of  the  hamlets and unincorporated villages of the
    14  state. The report shall consider the comparison of  such  rates  to  the
    15  larger  municipalities  which  contain such hamlets or villages, and the
    16  need for improved use by unemployed  workers  within  such  hamlets  and
    17  villages of publicly funded programs for employment training and employ-
    18  ment-related services.
    19    c. The annual report and statistics index required by this subdivision
    20  shall be made available to the public.
    21    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of October next succeed-
    22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediate-
    23  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    24  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    25  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08271-01-3
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