Bill Text: NY S03297 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no municipal corporation shall enact any local law, rule, regulation or ordinance that would require an employer to provide employment and wage information related to an employee or contractor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03297-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3297
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  prohibiting
          local  laws  requiring the reporting of certain employee wage informa-
          tion
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 99-x to read as follows:
     3    § 99-x. Employee and contractor employment and wage information.    1.
     4  Notwithstanding  any  general, special, or local law to the contrary, no
     5  municipal corporation shall enact any local  law,  rule,  regulation  or
     6  ordinance  that would require an employer to provide employment and wage
     7  information related to any employee or contractor of  such  employer  to
     8  any local agency.
     9    2. For purposes of this section, employee or contractor employment and
    10  wage information shall include:
    11    a.  job title, position or a description of the type of work performed
    12  by such person; and
    13    b. the information described in section one hundred ninety-five of the
    14  labor law.
    15    3. Nothing in this section shall limit the provision of employment and
    16  wage information pursuant to:
    17    a.  an investigation or enforcement of alleged violations of the labor
    18  law; or
    19    b.  an investigation or enforcement by a law enforcement agency; or
    20    c. article eight of the labor law.
    21    4. The provisions of this section  shall  supersede  all  local  laws,
    22  rules,  regulations or ordinances enacted prior to the effective date of
    23  this section that would require an employer to  provide  employment  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3297                             2
     1  wage information related to any employee or contractor for such employer
     2  to any local agency.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.