Bill Text: NY S05417 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prevents consideration of an increase in the minimum wage until December 31, 2024 outside of the city of New York and outside the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-13 - PRINT NUMBER 5417B [S05417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05417-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5417--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. BORRELLO, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor  --  recom-
          mitted  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, in relation to preventing consideration
          of an increase in the minimum wage in certain counties until  December
          31, 2024

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 652 of the  labor
     2  law,  as added by section 1 of part K of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) Remainder of state. Every  employer  shall  pay  to  each  of  its
     5  employees  for  each hour worked outside of the city of New York and the
     6  counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
     7    $9.70 on and after December 31, 2016,
     8    $10.40 on and after December 31, 2017,
     9    $11.10 on and after December 31, 2018,
    10    $11.80 on and after December 31, 2019,
    11    $12.50 on and after December 31, 2020,
    12    $13.20 on and after December 31, 2021,
    13    and on [each following] December thirty-first,  two  thousand  twenty-
    14  four, a wage published by the commissioner on or before October first of
    15  such  year,  based  on  the  then  current  minimum  wage increased by a
    16  percentage determined by the director of the budget in consultation with
    17  the commissioner, with the result rounded to  the  nearest  five  cents,
    18  totaling  no  more  than  fifteen dollars, where the percentage increase
    19  shall be based on indices including, but not limited to, (i) the rate of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  inflation for the most recent twelve month period ending  June  of  that
     2  year  based  on  the  consumer  price index for all urban consumers on a
     3  national and seasonally unadjusted basis (CPI-U), or a  successor  index
     4  as calculated by the United States department of labor, (ii) the rate of
     5  state personal income growth for the prior calendar year, or a successor
     6  index, published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States
     7  department of commerce, or (iii) wage growth; or, if greater, such other
     8  wage  as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section
     9  206 or its successors or such  other  wage  as  may  be  established  in
    10  accordance with the provisions of this article.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.