Bill Text: NY A06086 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6086

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-26 - referred to labor [A06086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A06086-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6086

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 26, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BRONSON, SHRESTHA, LEVENBERG, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
          RAGA, ROSENTHAL, LUCAS, R. CARROLL, RIVERA, STECK, LUNSFORD,  BURDICK,
          GALLAGHER,  REYES,  HEVESI,  EPSTEIN,  CONRAD,  SIMON,  RAMOS, DAVILA,
          KELLES, ZINERMAN, MEEKS, CLARK,  BARRETT,  MAGNARELLI,  ALVAREZ,  KAY,
          ROMERO, LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to the minimum wage outside
          of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester;
          and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating to exceptions to
          minimum wage increases

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision 1-b of section 652 of the
     2  labor law is REPEALED and paragraph (e) is relettered paragraph (d).
     3    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1-a of section 652 of the labor law,
     4  as added by section 2 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws  of  2023,  is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    (c)  Remainder  of  state.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  one  of this
     7  section, every employer shall pay to each of its employees for each hour
     8  worked outside the city of New York and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk,
     9  and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
    10    $15.00 on and after January 1, 2024,
    11    $15.50 on and after January 1, 2025,
    12    [$16.00] $17.00 on and after January 1, 2026,  or,  if  greater,  such
    13  other  wage  as  may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C.
    14  section 206 or its successors or such other wage as may  be  established
    15  in accordance with the provisions of this article.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


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