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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6086
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, SHRESTHA, LEVENBERG, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
RAGA, ROSENTHAL, LUCAS, R. CARROLL, RIVERA, STECK, LUNSFORD, BURDICK,
GALLAGHER, REYES, HEVESI, EPSTEIN, CONRAD, SIMON, RAMOS, DAVILA,
KELLES, ZINERMAN, MEEKS, CLARK, BARRETT, MAGNARELLI, ALVAREZ, KAY,
ROMERO, LASHER -- read once and referred 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2 labor law is REPEALED and paragraph (e) is relettered paragraph (d).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 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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