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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5602--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 18, 2015
                                       ___________
        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
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, the education law and the general munici-
          pal law, in relation to the minimum wage; and to amend part H of chap-
          ter 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:
    17    1.  Statutory.  (a)  Every employer shall pay to each of its employees
    18  for each hour worked a wage of not less than:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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