Bill Text: NY A04435 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes local governments to pay higher levels of minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A04435 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04435-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4435

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to authorizing local  govern-
          ments to pay higher level of minimum wage benefits

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a  new  section  666  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  666.  Non-preemption  clause.  Nothing in this article or any other
     4  provision of law shall be  deemed  to  prohibit  any  municipality  from
     5  establishing  or  enforcing  within its geographic boundaries payment of
     6  minimum wage of benefits standards that are higher  or  more  protective
     7  than those established pursuant to this article.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05968-01-3