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                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 15, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. JORDAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to establishing a training
         wage
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  652  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    3    6. TRAINING WAGE. IN THE EVENT THAT THE STATE MINIMUM  WAGE  INCREASES
    4  TO  AN AMOUNT GREATER THAN THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT
    5  TO 29 U.S.C. SECTION 206, A TRAINING WAGE EQUAL TO EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE
    6  STATE MINIMUM WAGE OR THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE,  WHICHEVER  IS  GREATER,
    7  MAY  BE PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER; AND
    8  FURTHER PROVIDED, A TRAINING WAGE EQUAL TO NINETY PERCENT OF  THE  STATE
    9  MINIMUM  WAGE  OR THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, MAY BE
   10  PAID TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS AT LEAST EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD  AND  NO  OLDER
   11  THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OLD.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09349-01-3