STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9538 IN ASSEMBLY March 16, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred 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. LBD14495-01-2A. 9538 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.