Session Laws

Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is to provide for emergency assistance benefits to certain employees of Malden Mills Industries, Inc. who are unemployed as a result of the recent fire at Malden Mills, therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Item 9081-0396 of section 2 of chapter 294 of the acts of 1995 is hereby amended by striking out the wording and inserting in place thereof the following:- `tm;keep=no `tcol=6,B4;c1=1,9,tu,T;c2=1,78,tuc;c3=1,78,tuc;c4=12,53,tfh1;c5=16,49,tu;c6=66,13,tur `tc1 `tc4 For a reserve for special, nonrecurring payments to certain employees of Malden Mills Industries, Inc. and other businesses that suffered substantial physical damage or were destroyed as a result of the fire at said Malden Mills Industries, Inc. occurring on December eleventh, nineteen hundred and ninety-five; provided, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, any employee of said Malden Mills Industries, Inc. or such other business who, as a direct result of the fire at said Malden Mills Industries, Inc. during said week, is unemployed during the week ending December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-five and suffers a loss of wages for said week or any of the subsequent four weeks or is required by the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-one A of the General Laws to serve, within one hundred and twenty days of said fire, a waiting period during a claim for unemployment benefits, shall be eligible to receive an emergency assistance benefit in the amount of three hundred dollars; provided, further, that the employee has filed a claim for such assistance in such manner and at such time or times as the commissioner of the department of employment and training shall prescribe; and provided, further, that said commissioner shall seek from the United States Secretary of Labor a waiver of the said waiting period or reimbursement from federal funds for the cost of said emergency assistance benefits `tc6 `tc5 Commonwealth Economic Development Fund 100.0% `tcol;end