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A 10048Increases the unemployment insurance minimum weekly benefit amount

Congress · introduced 2026-01-30

Provides that the unemployment insurance minimum weekly benefit amount shall be the greater of two hundred fifty dollars or fifteen percent of the state average weekly wage.

Latest action: 2026-01-30 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO LABOR

Text versions

Connected on the graph

Inbound (4)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-01-30Sarahana Shresthacosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-01-30Phara Souffrant Forrestcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-01-30Chris Burdickcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-01-30Claire Valdezsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Claire Valdez (, state_lower NY-37)sponsor05
2Chris Burdick (, state_lower NY-93)cosponsor01
3Phara Souffrant Forrest (, state_lower NY-57)cosponsor01
4Sarahana Shrestha (, state_lower NY-103)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2026-01-30 · cosponsored by Phara Souffrant Forrest (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2026-01-30 · cosponsored by Sarahana Shrestha (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2026-01-30 · sponsored by Claire Valdez (sponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2026-01-30 · cosponsored by Chris Burdick (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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