Bill Text: NY S05257 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a transportation benefits program requiring certain employers to provide a transportation benefit to covered employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 5257A [S05257 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05257-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5257--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor  --  recommitted  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
        AN ACT to amend the labor law and the tax law, in relation to establish-
          ing a qualified transportation fringe benefits program
          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 article 33 to read
     2  as follows:
     3                                 ARTICLE 33
     4                       TRANSPORTATION BENEFITS PROGRAM
     5  Section 960. Definitions.
     6          961. Transportation benefits program.
     7          962. Administration and enforcement.
     8          963. Severability.
     9    § 960. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
    10  have the following meanings:
    11    1. "Covered employee" shall mean any person who performed  an  average
    12  of  at  least  ten  hours of work per week for compensation for the same
    13  employer within the previous calendar month.
    14    2. "Covered employer" shall mean an employer for which an  average  of
    15  twenty or more persons per week perform work for compensation. In deter-
    16  mining  the  number  of persons performing work for an employer during a
    17  given week, all persons performing work for compensation on a full-time,
    18  part-time or temporary basis shall be counted,  including  persons  made
    19  available to work through the services of a temporary services or staff-
    20  ing  agency  or similar entity. A covered employer shall not include any
    21  governmental entity.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01022-04-6