Bill Text: NY A09583 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of labor to post on its internet website and annually update, the names of employers who employ 50 or more employees who receive public assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-16 - referred to labor [A09583 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09583-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9583

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2022
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring  the  department
          of  labor  to  publish  the names of employers which employ 50 or more
          employees who receive public assistance

          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 12-a to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 12-a. Publication  of  employers  with  employees  receiving  public
     4  assistance.  1.  The department shall, on its internet website, post and
     5  annually update the names  of  employers  which  employ  fifty  or  more
     6  employees  who  work  not less than twenty-six weeks a year and not less
     7  than ten hours a week, and who receive public assistance.
     8    2. For the purposes of this section "public assistance" includes:
     9    a. medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of article five of  the
    10  social services law;
    11    b.  child  health insurance pursuant to title one-A of article twenty-
    12  five of the public health law;
    13    c. assistance funded by the federal  temporary  assistance  for  needy
    14  families block grant program;
    15    d. the earned income personal income tax credit pursuant to subsection
    16  (d) or (d-1) of section six hundred six of the tax law; or
    17    e.  supplemental  nutrition  assistance  program  benefits pursuant to
    18  section ninety-five of the social services law.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07668-01-1