Bill Text: NY A05064 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a retail business from directing an employee to engage in human billboard activities during extreme temperatures.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - referred to labor [A05064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05064-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5064

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to prohibition of certain
          activities in extreme temperatures

          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 218-c to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 218-c. Prohibition of certain activities in extreme temperatures. 1.
     4  As used in this section the following terms  shall  have  the  following
     5  meanings:
     6    (a)  "Retail  business"  means any entity that is engaged primarily in
     7  the sale of consumer goods at one or more stores within the  state.  For
     8  the  purposes  of  this definition, "consumer goods" means products that
     9  are primarily for personal, household, or family purposes, including but
    10  not limited to appliances, clothing, electronics, groceries, and  house-
    11  hold items.
    12    (b) "Extreme temperature" shall mean a measured outdoor temperature of
    13  ninety degrees Fahrenheit and above.
    14    (c)  "Human billboard" shall mean holding or wearing a sign or partic-
    15  ular clothing outside of a retail business for the  purposes  of  adver-
    16  tisement.
    17    2.  No  retail  business  shall  direct an employee to engage in human
    18  billboard activities during extreme temperatures.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01687-01-5