New York A 5000: Relates to permitting the Middletown school district to establish an insurance reserve fund

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A05000 Summary:

BILL NOA05000 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04473

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSRSimon, McMahon, Raga, Griffin, Colton, Rosenthal, Levenberg, Ramos

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§198 & 663, Lab L

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Clarifies that the statutory damages available for certain wage violations are not punitive in nature and are designed to be liquidated damages rather than penalties or to compensate workers for the employer's failure to prevent wage theft and for the harm to employees that results from such failure.

Go to top A05000 Actions:

BILL NOA05000 

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02/10/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

02/04/2026reported referred to codes

05/28/2026reported referred to rules

06/04/2026reported 

06/04/2026rules report cal.477

06/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.477

06/04/2026substituted by s4473

&nbspS04473 AMEND= RAMOS

&nbsp02/05/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

&nbsp05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1194

&nbsp05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/12/2025referred to labor

&nbsp01/07/2026died in assembly

&nbsp01/07/2026returned to senate

&nbsp01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

&nbsp02/11/20261ST REPORT CAL.353

&nbsp02/24/20262ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp02/25/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp02/26/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/26/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/26/2026referred to codes

&nbsp06/04/2026substituted for a5000

&nbsp06/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.477

Go to topA05000 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:LABOR Chair:Bronson 
DATE:02/04/2026AYE/NAY:28/1 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes BronsonAyeDursoAye

ColtonAyeBrabenecAye

BenedettoAyeDiPietroNay

HevesiAyeMorinelloAye

RozicAyeDeStefanoAye

SteckAyeGiglioAye

CruzAyeSlaterAye

ReyesAyeNorberAye

RamosAyeSempolinskiAye

JacobsonAye

ZinermanAye

TaylorAye

TapiaAye

LucasAye

AlvarezAye

RagaAye

RiveraAye

BoresAye

SimoneAye

BurroughsAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/28/2026AYE/NAY:17/1 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye

CookExcusedReillyAye

LavineAyeMikulinExcused

WeprinAyeTannousisAye

HevesiAyeAngelinoAye

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAbsent

CruzAye

BoresExcused

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

TaylorAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/04/2026AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeBrabenecExcused

DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

MagnarelliAyeSmithAye

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA05000 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05000 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5000

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, SIMON, McMAHON, RAGA -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to liquidated damages for
 labor law violations

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "labor law enforcement parity act".
 3 § 2. Legislative Findings. 1. The legislature finds and declares that
 4 it has always been its intention that the remedies provided under the
 5 labor law be fully and equally enforceable in both state and federal
 6 court. However, some state courts have misconstrued the liquidated
 7 damages available for violations of the labor law as penalties, despite
 8 the fact that the legislature amended the labor law's liquidated damages
 9 provision in 2009 and 2010 to bring it in line with the compensatory
 10 purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act's liquidated damages provision.
 11 As a result, while employees have been able to recover the full amount
 12 of compensatory liquidated damages owed to them in federal court
 13 actions, they are not always able to do so in state court actions.
 14 Accordingly, the first purpose o