Bill Text: NY S05602 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-29 - PRINT NUMBER 5602B [S05602 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05602-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5602--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 18, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PANEPINTO,  HAMILTON,  KRUEGER,  PARKER, PERKINS,
          STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Labor   in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  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
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, the education law and the general munici-
          pal  law,  in relation to the minimum wage; to amend the public health
          law, in relation to home care worker wage parity; and to amend part  H
          of  chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and
          other laws relating to known and projected department of health  state
          fund medicaid expenditures, in relation to medicaid disbursements
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (n) of subdivision 5 of section 651 of the  labor
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 481 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (n) by [a] the federal[, state or municipal] government  or  political
     5  subdivision  thereof.  The exclusions from the term "employee" contained
     6  in this subdivision shall be as defined by regulations  of  the  commis-
     7  sioner; or
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  6  of  section 651 of the labor law, as amended by
     9  chapter 281 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
    10    6.  "Employer"  includes  any  individual,  partnership,  association,
    11  corporation,  limited liability company, business trust, legal represen-
    12  tative, state or municipal government or political subdivision  thereof,
    13  or any organized group of persons acting as employer.
    14    §  3.  Subdivision  1  of  section 652 of the labor law, as amended by
    15  section 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2013 is amended to read
    16  as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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