A 5054 — Relates to the payment of fees allowed for representation in unemployment compensation cases

Congress · introduced 2025-02-11

Allows approved claims of representatives for services rendered to a claimant in connection with an unemployment insurance claim to become a lien upon the benefit allowed; criminalizes certain violations relating to other forms of compensation in connection with an unemployment insurance claim; provides that a fee allowed shall be on a contingency basis and be equal to fifteen percent of the amount of the benefits to be paid to the claimant at the conclusion of services rendered.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Action timeline

2025-02-11 · assembly — REFERRED TO LABOR
2026-01-07 · assembly — REFERRED TO LABOR

Text versions

Introduced · 2025-02-11 — HTML · Text

Connected on the graph

Inbound (2)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2025-02-11	Jonathan Jacobson	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2025-02-11	Steve Stern	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship

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.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Jonathan Jacobson (—, state_lower NY-104)	sponsor	0	—	5
2	Steve Stern (—, state_lower NY-10)	cosponsor	0	—	1

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.

2025-02-11 · cosponsored by Steve Stern (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2025-02-11 · sponsored by Jonathan Jacobson (sponsor) · sponsorship

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