STATE OF NEW YORK
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4919
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- 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 authorizing local govern-
ments to pay higher level of minimum wage benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 665 of the labor law, as added by chapter 619 of
2 the laws of 1960, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 665. Savings and non-preemption clause. 1. If any provision of this
4 article or the application thereof to any person, employer, occupation
5 or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the article and the
6 application of such provision to other persons, employees, occupations,
7 or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
8 2. Nothing in this article or any other provision of law shall be
9 deemed to prohibit any municipality from establishing or enforcing with-
10 in its geographic boundaries payment of minimum wage of benefits stand-
11 ards that are higher or more protective than those established pursuant
12 to this article.
13 § 2. 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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