New York S 4473: Designates uniformed court officers in the town of Ossining, county of Westchester as peace officers

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S04473 Summary:

BILL NOS04473 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05000

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSRHOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, SALAZAR

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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.

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BILL NOS04473 

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02/05/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1194

05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/12/2025PASSED SENATE

06/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/12/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

02/11/20261ST REPORT CAL.353

02/24/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/25/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/26/2026PASSED SENATE

02/26/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/26/2026referred to codes

06/04/2026substituted for a5000

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

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4473

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 5, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SALAZAR -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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 of this bill is to clarify that all
 15 liquidated damages available for violations of the labor law, which are
 16 generally an amount equal to the unpaid or underpaid wages, are compen-
 17 satory in nature and not penalties.
 18 2. The legislature further finds and declares that both federal and
 19 state courts have recently misconstrued the purposes of New York Labor
 20 Law § 195. Despite allowing claims for violations of the labor law's
 21 wage notice and wage statement provisions to proceed for years, and
 22 allowing workers to recover the full statutory damages provided under
 23 the labor law for these violations, some federal courts have begun
 24 dismissing these claims for lack of Article III standing, claiming that

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06533-01-5

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 1 these violations do not cause workers any concrete injury. Meanwhile,
 2 some state courts have misconstrued the statutory damages available for
 3 violations of the wage notice and wage statement provisions as penalties
 4 and have thus not allowed workers to recover the statutory damages
 5 provided, even though they have been able to do so in many federal
 6 courts. Accordingly, the second purpose of this bill is to clarify that
 7 the statutory damages available for violations of the wage notice and
 8 statement provisions of the law are not punitive in nature, and are
 9 instead designed to compensate workers for their employer's failure to
 10 prevent wage theft in the first place, and the harms employees suffer