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S00028 Summary:

BILL NOS00028C

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SAME ASSAME AS A01006-B

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRCOMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, MAY, RAMOS,
 SALAZAR, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, STAVISKY, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 651, 655 & 652, Lab L

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Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability.

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BILL NOS00028C

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

02/05/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

02/05/2025PRINT NUMBER 28A

04/08/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO DISABILITIES

04/24/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO DISABILITIES

04/24/2025PRINT NUMBER 28B

05/27/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

05/27/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE

05/27/2025PRINT NUMBER 28C

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

04/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO DISABILITIES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 28--C

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GOUNARDES,
 HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, MAY, RAMOS, SALAZAR,
 STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
 committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the
 Committee on Disabilities -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
 reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
 on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the minimum wage for
 employees with disabilities

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

 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 5 of section 651 of
 2 the labor law, as amended by chapter 391 of the laws of 2024, is amended
 3 and a new subdivision 10 is added to read as follows:
 4 "Employee" includes any individual employed or permitted to work by an
 5 employer in any occupation, but shall not include any individual who is
 6 employed or permitted to work: (a) on a casual basis in service as a
 7 part time baby sitter in the home of the employer; (b) in a bona fide
 8 executive, administrative, or professional capacity; (c) as an outside
 9 [salesman] salesperson; (d) as a driver engaged in operating a taxicab;
 10 (e) as a volunteer, learner or apprentice by a corporation, unincorpo-
 11 rated association, community chest, fund or foundation organized and
 12 operated exclusively for religious, charitable or educational purposes,
 13 no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any
 14 private shareholder or individual; (f) as a member of a religious order,
 15 or as a duly ordained, commissioned or licensed minister, priest or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00052-06-5

 S. 28--C 2

 1 rabbi, or as a sexton, or as a christian science reader; (g) in or for
 2 such a religious or charitable institution, which work is incidental to
 3 or in return for charitable aid conferred upon such individual and not
 4 under any express contract of hire; (h) in or for such a religious,
 5 educational or charitable institution if such individual is a student;
 6 (i) [in or for such a religious, educational or charitable institution
 7 if the earning capacity of such individual is impaired by age or by
 8 physical or mental deficiency or injury; (j)] in or for a summer camp or
 9 conference of such a religious, educational or charitable institution
 10 for not more than three months annuall