S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1072
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 preventing consideration
of an increase in the minimum wage in certain counties until December
31, 2025
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-
FIVE, 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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index, published by the bureau of economic analysis of the United States
department of commerce, or (iii) wage growth; or, if greater, such other
wage as may be established by federal law pursuant to 29 U.S.C. section
206 or its successors or such other wage as may be established in
accordance with the provisions of this article.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.