New York S 448: Authorizes municipal legislative bodies to enact local laws and ordinances providing for mediation of land use decisions

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S00448 Summary:

BILL NOS00448C

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRBASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES,
 HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, RYAN
 C, RYAN S, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, WEBB

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Add Art 38 §§1150 - 1153, Lab L

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Enacts the "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"; relates to the delegation of state enforcement authority to private actors; authorizes an affected employee, whistleblower, representative organization or an organizational deputy to initiate a public enforcement action on behalf of the commissioner for certain provisions of the labor law, or any regulation promulgated thereunder.

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BILL NOS00448C

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

03/19/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

03/19/2025PRINT NUMBER 448A

11/26/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

11/26/2025PRINT NUMBER 448B

12/24/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

12/24/2025PRINT NUMBER 448C

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 448--C

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BASKIN, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE,
 COMRIE, COONEY, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HARCK-
 HAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, LIU, MAY, MAYER, MYRIE,
 PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, C. RYAN, S. RYAN, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SCARCELLA-
 SPANTON, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, WEBB -- 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 committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to enacting the "Empowering
 People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection Act"

 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 "Empowering People in Rights Enforcement (EMPIRE) Worker Protection
 3 Act".
 4 § 2. Legislative findings. 1. The legislature finds and declares that
 5 violations of the labor law are often systemic, affecting many workers.
 6 2. The legislature further finds and declares that despite the labor
 7 law's strong protections for workers, limits on the availability of
 8 public enforcement resources have deleterious effects on the marketplace
 9 by allowing abuses targeting workers to persist unprosecuted. To ensure
 10 the robust enforcement of the labor law, while minimizing the outlay of
 11 scarce state funds, this act allows private individuals, labor organiza-
 12 tions, and labor organizations deputized by the state to bring public
 13 enforcement actions in certain contexts in which the state does not have
 14 the means to fully enforce labor law protections.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01897-10-5

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 1 3. The legislature further finds and declares that the purpose of the
 2 EMPIRE Worker Protection Act is to create a means of empowering citizens
 3 as private attorneys general to enforce the New York labor law.
 4 4. The legislature further finds and declares that the purpose of the
 5 EMPIRE Worker Protection Act is to incentivize private parties to
 6 recover civil penalties for the government that otherwise may not have
 7 been assessed and collected by overburdened state enforcement agencies.
 8 When the New York labor law is effectively enforced, it protects the
 9 interests of all New Yorkers and the state of New York. Such public
 10 enforcement actions are an efficient mechanism to limit systemic
 11 violations, wi