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Assembly Bill A6239A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases the minimum wage on and after 2021 and subsequently prevents consideration of an increase in the minimum wage in certain counties until December 31, 2024

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2021-A6239 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §652, Lab L

2021-A6239 - Summary

Increases the minimum wage on and after 2021 to $13.20 and subsequently prevents consideration of an increase in the minimum wage until December 31, 2024 outside of the city of New York and outside the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester.

2021-A6239 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6239
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GOODELL, J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  preventing  consideration
   of  an increase in the minimum wage in certain counties until December
   31, 2024
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 652 of the labor
 law, as added by section 1 of part K of chapter 54 of the laws of  2016,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  Remainder  of  state.  Every  employer  shall  pay to each of its
 employees for each hour worked outside of the city of New York  and  the
 counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
   $9.70 on and after December 31, 2016,
   $10.40 on and after December 31, 2017,
   $11.10 on and after December 31, 2018,
   $11.80 on and after December 31, 2019,
   $12.50 on and after December 31, 2020,
   and  on  [each  following] December thirty-first, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 FOUR, a wage published by the commissioner on or before October first OF
 SUCH YEAR, based on  the  then  current  minimum  wage  increased  by  a
 percentage determined by the director of the budget in consultation with
 the  commissioner,  with  the  result rounded to the nearest five cents,
 totaling no more than fifteen dollars,  where  the  percentage  increase
 shall be based on indices including, but not limited to, (i) the rate of
 inflation  for  the  most recent twelve month period ending June of that
 year based on the consumer price index for  all  urban  consumers  on  a
 national  and  seasonally unadjusted basis (CPI-U), or a successor index
 as calculated by the United States department of labor, (ii) the rate of
 state personal income growth for the prior calendar year, or a successor
 index, published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States

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

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2021-A6239A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §652, Lab L

2021-A6239A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the minimum wage on and after 2021 to $13.20 and subsequently prevents consideration of an increase in the minimum wage until December 31, 2024 outside of the city of New York and outside the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester.

2021-A6239A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6239--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GOODELL, J. M. GIGLIO -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor  in
   accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to increasing the minimum
   wage on and after 2021 and subsequently preventing consideration of an
   increase in the minimum wage in certain counties  until  December  31,
   2024
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 652 of the  labor
 law,  as added by section 1 of part K of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (c) Remainder of state. Every  employer  shall  pay  to  each  of  its
 employees  for  each hour worked outside of the city of New York and the
 counties of Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester, a wage of not less than:
   $9.70 on and after December 31, 2016,
   $10.40 on and after December 31, 2017,
   $11.10 on and after December 31, 2018,
   $11.80 on and after December 31, 2019,
   $12.50 on and after December 31, 2020,
   $13.20 ON AND AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2021,
   and on [each following] December thirty-first,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 FOUR, a wage published by the commissioner on or before October first OF
 SUCH  YEAR,  based  on  the  then  current  minimum  wage increased by a
 percentage determined by the director of the budget in consultation with
 the commissioner, with the result rounded to  the  nearest  five  cents,
 totaling  no  more  than  fifteen dollars, where the percentage increase
 shall be based on indices including, but not limited to, (i) the rate of
 inflation for the most recent twelve month period ending  June  of  that
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10235-03-1

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