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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6813--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 20, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
the Committee on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, 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.
LBD11813-08-8
