Bill Text: NY S02232 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2232 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-10 - PRINT NUMBER 2232F [S02232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02232-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2232--D
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Judiciary  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Judiciary in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the lien law, in relation to employee  liens;  to  amend
          the  labor law, in relation to employee complaints; to amend the civil
          practice law and rules, in relation  to  grounds  for  attachment;  to
          amend the business corporation law, in relation to streamlining proce-
          dures  where  employees  may  hold shareholders of non-publicly traded
          corporations personally liable for wage theft; and to amend the limit-
          ed liability company law, in relation to creating a right for  victims
          of  wage  theft  to  hold  the  ten members with the largest ownership
          interests in a company personally liable for wage theft
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  2 of the lien law is amended by adding three new
     2  subdivisions 21, 22 and 23 to read as follows:
     3    21. Employee. The term "employee", when used in  this  chapter,  shall
     4  have  the  same  meaning  as "employee" pursuant to the labor law or the
     5  Fair Labor Standards Act, as applicable.
     6    22. Employer. The term "employer", when used in  this  chapter,  shall
     7  have  the  same  meaning  as "employer" pursuant to the labor law or the
     8  Fair Labor Standards Act, as applicable.
     9    23. Wage claim. The term "wage claim",  when  used  in  this  chapter,
    10  means  a claim that an employee has suffered a violation of sections one
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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