Bill Text: NY S08154 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8154

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the minimum wage outside of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester; repeals certain provisions of law relating to exceptions to minimum wage increases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08154 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08154-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8154

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. RAMOS, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the minimum  wage  outside
          of New York city and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester;
          and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating to exceptions to
          minimum wage increases

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1-b  of  section  652  of  the
     2  labor law is REPEALED and paragraph (e) is relettered paragraph (d).
     3    § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1-a of section 652 of the labor law,
     4  as  added  by  section 2 of part S of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    (c) Remainder  of  state.  Notwithstanding  subdivision  one  of  this
     7  section, every employer shall pay to each of its employees for each hour
     8  worked outside the city of New York and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk,
     9  and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
    10    $15.00 on and after January 1, 2024,
    11    [$15.50] $16.00 on and after January 1, 2025,
    12    [$16.00]  $17.00  on  and  after January 1, 2026, or, if greater, such
    13  other wage as may be established by federal law pursuant  to  29  U.S.C.
    14  section  206  or its successors or such other wage as may be established
    15  in accordance with the provisions of this article.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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