Bill Text: NY A10562 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands laws benefiting child performers to include children who participate in online videos that generate earnings from being shared on social media or other video-sharing websites.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-03 - referred to labor [A10562 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10562-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10562 IN ASSEMBLY June 3, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen- thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to expanding laws benefiting child performers to include children who participate in online videos that generate earnings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of section 150 of the labor law, 2 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 411 of the laws of 2013, and subdi- 3 visions 2 and 3 as added by chapter 630 of the laws of 2003, are amended 4 to read as follows: 5 1. "Artistic or creative services" shall include, but are not limited 6 to, (a) services as an actor, actress, dancer, musician, comedian, sing- 7 er, stunt-person, voice-over artist, runway or print model, or other 8 performer or entertainer, or as a songwriter, musical producer or arran- 9 ger, writer, director, producer, production executive, choreographer, 10 composer, conductor, influencer, or designer; and/or 11 (b) participation in a video that is posted to a video-sharing and/or 12 social networking internet website which generates earnings from spon- 13 sors or by other means, based on the number of views of such video, or 14 based on the number of clicks on a link leading to such video. 15 2. "Child performer" shall mean any child under the age of eighteen 16 who (a) resides in the state of New York and who agrees to render artis- 17 tic or creative services; [or] 18 (b) agrees to render artistic or creative services in the state of New 19 York; or 20 (c) agrees to render artistic or creative services under paragraph (b) 21 of subdivision one of this section where such artistic or creative 22 services were recorded in the state of New York or uploaded to a video- 23 sharing and/or social networking internet website from within the state 24 of New York. 25 3. "Child performer's employer" shall mean (a) a person or entity 26 which employs a child performer to furnish artistic or creative services 27 for a fee either directly or through a third-party provider (loan-out EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16558-01-0A. 10562 2 1 company) or an agency or service that provides artistic or creative 2 services (casting agency); or 3 (b) a video-sharing and/or social networking internet website that 4 generates earnings from videos qualifying as artistic or creative 5 services by a child performer. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 9 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 10 on or before such effective date.