A 6122: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6122 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 26, 2025 ___________ 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. LBD05104-01-5