Defines freight transportation broker as any sole proprietor, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity that brokers the transportation of goods for outside third-party employers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8542--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 21, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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 committee --
again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of a
freight transportation broker
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 862-a of the labor law, as
2 amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2014, is amended and a new subdivi-
3 sion 7 is added to read as follows:
4 6. "Employer" means any commercial goods transportation contractor
5 which compensates a person classified as an employee under section eight
6 hundred sixty-two-b of this article. Such term shall not include any
7 freight transportation broker as defined in subdivision seven of this
8 section.
9 7. "Freight transportation broker" means any sole proprietor, partner-
10 ship, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other
11 legal entity that brokers the transportation of goods for outside third-
12 party employers.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11813-06-8
