Bill Text: NY S08749 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that the rate of pay for all human services contracts between any state or local agency and a nonprofit human services provider stipulate that the provider will pay its employees no less than twenty-one dollars per hour and that the necessary amounts have been appropriated to ensure payment of such minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-11 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08749 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08749-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8749

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 11, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  requiring  human  service
          providers  that contract with the state to pay their employees a mini-
          mum wage of twenty-one dollars per hour

          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 224-e to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 224-e. Wage requirements for certain human services workers. 1.  For
     4  the purposes of this section:
     5    (a) "Human services" shall mean any service provided to individuals or
     6  groups  of  individuals,  for the purpose of improving or enhancing such
     7  individuals'  health  and/or  welfare,  by  addressing  social  problems
     8  including  but  not  limited  to:  domestic violence, teenage pregnancy,
     9  migrant health problems, child abuse, nutritional deficiencies, suicide,
    10  hunger, unemployment, lack of suitable shelter, crime, drug and  alcohol
    11  abuse and poverty.
    12    (b)  "Human  services  provider" shall mean any: (i) not-for-profit or
    13  charitable organization, or (ii) local agency as  defined  in  paragraph
    14  (c)  of  this  subdivision,  that (1) contracts with any state agency or
    15  other public entity, as defined in paragraph (e) of this subdivision  to
    16  provide  human services as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision,
    17  or (2) directly or indirectly receives any public funds  to  provide  or
    18  contract with third persons to provide human services for the benefit of
    19  the general public or specific client groups.
    20    (c)  "Local  agency"  shall include all county, city, town and village
    21  governing bodies, all other public corporations, special  districts  and
    22  school districts in the state.
    23    (d)  "State  agency"  shall  include  any department, division, board,
    24  bureau, commission, office, agency, authority or public  corporation  of
    25  the state.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14495-01-2
        S. 8749                             2

     1    (e)  "Public  entity"  shall mean any local agency as defined in para-
     2  graph (c) of this subdivision and any state agency as defined  in  para-
     3  graph (d) of this subdivision.
     4    2.  Every  contract  for  human services entered into between a public
     5  entity and a human services provider, and any such contract entered into
     6  by a third party acting in place of, on behalf of and for the benefit of
     7  such public entity pursuant to any  lease,  permit  or  other  agreement
     8  between such third party and the public entity, shall stipulate that:
     9    (a) the human services provider shall pay to each of its employees for
    10  each hour worked a wage of not less than twenty-one dollars; and
    11    (b)  adequate  funding has been appropriated to ensure compliance with
    12  the minimum wage requirements set forth in paragraph (a) of this  subdi-
    13  vision.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
    15  contracts and agreements issued, renewed, modified, altered  or  amended
    16  on or after such date.