Bill Text: NY A06239 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the minimum wage on and after 2021 to $13.20 and subsequently prevents consideration of an increase in the minimum wage until December 31, 2024 outside of the city of New York and outside the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - held for consideration in labor [A06239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06239-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6239--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GOODELL, J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor  in
          accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to increasing the minimum
          wage on and after 2021 and subsequently preventing consideration of an
          increase in the minimum wage in certain counties  until  December  31,
          2024

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 652 of the  labor
     2  law,  as added by section 1 of part K of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) Remainder of state. Every  employer  shall  pay  to  each  of  its
     5  employees  for  each hour worked outside of the city of New York and the
     6  counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
     7    $9.70 on and after December 31, 2016,
     8    $10.40 on and after December 31, 2017,
     9    $11.10 on and after December 31, 2018,
    10    $11.80 on and after December 31, 2019,
    11    $12.50 on and after December 31, 2020,
    12    $13.20 on and after December 31, 2021,
    13    and on [each following] December thirty-first,  two  thousand  twenty-
    14  four, a wage published by the commissioner on or before October first of
    15  such  year,  based  on  the  then  current  minimum  wage increased by a
    16  percentage determined by the director of the budget in consultation with
    17  the commissioner, with the result rounded to  the  nearest  five  cents,
    18  totaling  no  more  than  fifteen dollars, where the percentage increase
    19  shall be based on indices including, but not limited to, (i) the rate of
    20  inflation for the most recent twelve month period ending  June  of  that

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  year  based  on  the  consumer  price index for all urban consumers on a
     2  national and seasonally unadjusted basis (CPI-U), or a  successor  index
     3  as calculated by the United States department of labor, (ii) the rate of
     4  state personal income growth for the prior calendar year, or a successor
     5  index, published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States
     6  department of commerce, or (iii) wage growth; or, if greater, such other
     7  wage  as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section
     8  206 or its successors or such  other  wage  as  may  be  established  in
     9  accordance with the provisions of this article.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.