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A01167 Summary:

BILL NOA01167 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRozic

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COSPNSRCruz, Epstein, Giglio, Hevesi, Lunsford, McDonough, Otis, Reyes, Rosenthal, Seawright, Simon,
 Weprin

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §196-e, Lab L

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Relates to providing hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency; provides that certain employers shall make hazard payments to essential workers during a state disaster emergency provided no hazard payment shall exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any year for any essential worker earning less than two hundred thousand dollars per year or five thousand dollars for any essential worker earning more than two hundred thousand dollars.

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BILL NOA01167 

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01/09/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1167

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, CRUZ, EPSTEIN, GIGLIO, HEVESI, LUNSFORD,
 McDONOUGH, OTIS, REYES, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, WEPRIN -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing hazard payments
 to essential workers during a state disaster emergency

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

 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 196-e to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 196-e. Essential worker hazard payments. 1. For the purposes of this
 4 section:
 5 (a) "essential worker" means any employee of an employer providing
 6 essential services or functions during any state disaster emergency
 7 declared pursuant to article two-B of the executive law and designated
 8 as an essential worker pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or execu-
 9 tive order including but not limited to essential health care operations
 10 including research and laboratory services; essential infrastructure
 11 including utilities, telecommunication, airports and transportation
 12 infrastructure; essential retail including grocery stores and pharma-
 13 cies; essential services including trash collection, mail, and shipping
 14 services; news media; banks and related financial institutions; provid-
 15 ers of basic necessities to economically disadvantaged populations;
 16 construction; vendors of essential services necessary to maintain the
 17 safety, sanitation and essential operations of residences or other
 18 essential businesses; vendors that provide essential services or
 19 products, including logistics and technology support, child care and
 20 services needed to ensure the continuing operation of government agen-
 21 cies and provide for the health, safety and welfare of the public;
 22 (b) "employer" means a formula retail store, large employer, transpor-
 23 tation business, or franchisee or subcontractor, and includes any indi-
 24 vidual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability compa-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03422-01-5

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 1 ny, business trust, legal representative, or any organized group of
 2 persons acting as such an employer;
 3 (c) "formula retail store" means any employer that operates a retail
 4 sales or restaurant establishment either directly or through franchisees
 5 and that, along with eleven or more other retail sales or restaurant
 6 establishments located in the United States, maintains two or more of
 7 the following features: (i) a standardized array of merchandise, a
 8 standardized facade, a standardized decor and color scheme, a uniform
 9 apparel, standardized signage, a trademark; or (ii) a servicemark;
 10 (d) "large employer" means any employer that has annual gross revenue
 11 of fifty million dollars or more, but shall not include: (i) an employer
 12 whose principal industry is manufacturing; or (ii) a not-for-profit
 13 organization. An employer shall be deemed to have annual gross revenue
 14 of fifty million dollars or more if it had revenue at or exceeding