New York S 4478: Relates to third party litigation financing

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S04478 Summary:

BILL NOS04478 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05607

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §137-a, Lab L; amd §3215-a, Ed L

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Requires the department of labor to provide a document on workplace rights to any minor seeking working papers and to make such document available in other languages and to school officials who issue working papers.

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BILL NOS04478 

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02/05/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

05/14/20251ST REPORT CAL.1116

05/15/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/19/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/29/2025PASSED SENATE

05/29/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/29/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

02/24/20261ST REPORT CAL.373

02/25/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/26/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/09/2026PASSED SENATE

03/09/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/09/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4478

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law and the education law, in relation to
 creating a workplace rights document to be provided to minors seeking
 employment

 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 137-a to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 137-a. Workplace rights document. The department shall develop, and
 4 make available to school officials, a workplace rights document to be
 5 provided to minors seeking an employment certificate or permit pursuant
 6 to article sixty-five of the education law. Such document shall clearly
 7 explain basic labor rights extended to workers, and express such labor
 8 rights in plain terminology, easily understood by a minor. The workplace
 9 rights document shall be made available on the department's website and
 10 translated by the department in the ten most commonly spoken languages
 11 in the state or any language otherwise requested by the minor seeking
 12 the employment certificate or permit. Topics covered in such workplace
 13 rights document shall include, but not be limited to, local, state, and
 14 federal laws regarding each of the following issues: (i) child labor;
 15 (ii) wage and hour protections; (iii) worker safety; (iv) workers'
 16 compensation; (v) paid sick leave; (vi) prohibitions against retali-
 17 ation; and (vii) the right to organize a union in the workplace. Any
 18 minor seeking an employment certificate or permit shall be issued,
 19 before or at the time of receiving such employment certificate or
 20 permit, the workplace rights document. The document shall be produced to
 21 a minor in physical form.
 22 § 2. Section 3215-a of the education law is amended by adding a new
 23 subdivision 4 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08826-01-5

 S. 4478 2

 1 4. Employment certificates or permits issued to students shall include
 2 the workplace rights document pursuant to section one hundred thirty-
 3 seven-a of the labor law.
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 5 have become a law.

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