New York A 5018: Requires human service providers that contract with the state to pay their employees a certain minimum wage

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A05018 Summary:

BILL NOA05018 

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SAME ASSAME AS S03949

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSRGallagher, Shimsky, Colton, Zinerman, Tapia, Burdick, Gonzalez-Rojas, Levenberg, Lucas, Glick,
 Davila, Forrest

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §224-g, Lab L

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Requires that all human services contracts between any public entity and a human services provider stipulate that the public entity will pay no less than 150% of the higher of: the otherwise applicable minimum wage in the state or any otherwise applicable wage rule or order and that the necessary amounts have been appropriated to ensure payment of such minimum wage.

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BILL NOA05018 

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02/10/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5018

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, GALLAGHER, SHIMSKY, COLTON, ZINERMAN,
 TAPIA, BURDICK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LEVENBERG, LUCAS, GLICK, DAVILA,
 FORREST -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring human service
 providers that contract with the state to pay their employees a
 certain minimum wage

 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 224-g to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 224-g. Wage requirements for certain human services workers. 1. For
 4 the purposes of this section:
 5 (a) "Human services" shall mean any service provided to individuals or
 6 groups of individuals, for the purpose of improving or enhancing such
 7 individuals' health and/or welfare, by addressing social problems
 8 including but not limited to: domestic violence, teenage pregnancy,
 9 migrant health problems, child abuse, nutritional deficiencies, suicide,
 10 hunger, unemployment, lack of suitable shelter, crime, drug and alcohol
 11 abuse and poverty.
 12 (b) "Human services provider" shall mean any: (i) not-for-profit or
 13 charitable organization, or (ii) local agency as defined in paragraph
 14 (c) of this subdivision, that (1) contracts with any state agency or
 15 other public entity, as defined in paragraph (e) of this subdivision to
 16 provide human services as defined in paragraph (a) of this subdivision,
 17 or (2) directly or indirectly receives any public funds to provide or
 18 contract with third persons to provide human services for the benefit of
 19 the general public or specific client groups.
 20 (c) "Local agency" shall include all county, city, town and village
 21 governing bodies, all other public corporations, special districts and
 22 school districts in the state.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08514-01-5

 A. 5018 2

 1 (d) "State agency" shall include any department, division, board,
 2 bureau, commission, office, agency, authority or public corporation of
 3 the state.
 4 (e) "Public entity" shall mean any local agency as defined in para-
 5 graph (c) of this subdivision and any state agency as defined in para-
 6 graph (d) of this subdivision.
 7 2. Every contract for human services entered into between a public
 8 entity and a human services provider, and any such contract entered into
 9 by a third party acting in place of, on behalf of and for the benefit of
 10 such public entity pursuant to any lease, permit or other agreement
 11 between such third party and the public entity, shall stipulate that:
 12 (a) the public entity shall pay to each human services worker for each
 13 hour worked no less than one hundred fifty percent of the higher of: (i)
 14 the otherwise applicable minimum wage under section six hundred fifty-
 15 two of this chapter; or (ii) any otherwise applicable wage rule or order
 16 under article nineteen of this chapter; and
 17 (b) adequate funding has been appropriated to ensure compliance with
 18 the minimum wage requirements set forth in paragraph (a) of this subdi-
 19 vision.
 20 § 2. This act shall take effect imm