Bill Text: NY A08542 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Defines freight transportation broker as any sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity that brokers the transportation of goods for outside third-party employers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-01 - print number 8542b [A08542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08542-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8542--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 21, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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  committee  --
          again  reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the labor law,  in  relation  to  the  definition  of  a
          freight transportation broker
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Subdivision 6 of section  862-a  of  the  labor  law,  as
     2  amended  by chapter 7 of the laws of 2014, is amended and a new subdivi-
     3  sion 7 is added to read as follows:
     4    6. "Employer" means any  commercial  goods  transportation  contractor
     5  which compensates a person classified as an employee under section eight
     6  hundred  sixty-two-b  of  this  article. Such term shall not include any
     7  freight transportation broker as defined in subdivision  seven  of  this
     8  section.
     9    7. "Freight transportation broker" means any sole proprietor, partner-
    10  ship, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other
    11  legal entity that brokers the transportation of goods for outside third-
    12  party employers.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11813-06-8