Bill Text: NY A06795 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds wage theft to the types of activities included in the crime of larceny.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06795 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06795-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6795 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to wage theft The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 155.00 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 514 of the laws of 1986, is amended and a new subdi- 3 vision 10 is added to read as follows: 4 1. "Property" means any money, wages, personal property, real proper- 5 ty, computer data, computer program, thing in action, evidence of debt 6 or contract, or any article, substance or thing of value, including any 7 gas, steam, water or electricity, which is provided for a charge or 8 compensation. 9 10. "Workforce" means a group of one or more people providing services 10 in exchange for wages for one person or entity. 11 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 155.05 of the penal law is amended by 12 adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows: 13 (f) By wage theft. 14 A person obtains property by wage theft when he agrees to hire a 15 person to perform services and the person performs such services and the 16 defendant withholds such wages from said person. In a prosecution for 17 wage theft, for the purposes of venue, it is permissible to aggregate 18 all takings from one person from one defendant, into one larceny count, 19 even if the takings occurred in multiple counties. It is also permissi- 20 ble to aggregate takings from a workforce into one larceny count. 21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09504-01-9