New York A 7770: Requires the commissioner of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state

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A07770 Summary:

BILL NOA07770 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04514-A

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SPONSORTorres

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COSPNSRZinerman, Hooks

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §21, Lab L

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Requires the commissioner of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state.

Go to top A07770 Actions:

BILL NOA07770 

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04/10/2025referred to labor

06/09/2025reference changed to ways and means

06/10/2025reported referred to rules

06/11/2025reported 

06/11/2025rules report cal.632

06/11/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.632

01/07/2026ordered to third reading cal.194

Go to topA07770 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/10/2025AYE/NAY:22/10 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyeRaNay

GlickAyeFitzpatrickNay

ColtonAyeHawleyNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

BenedettoExcusedPalmesanoNay

WeprinAyeWalshNay

RamosAyeDeStefanoNay

BraunsteinAyeManktelowNay

McDonaldAyeSmullenNay

RozicAyeGiglioNay

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAbsent

BronsonAye

DilanAye

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

EpsteinAye

SeptimoAbsent

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/11/2025AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliExcusedReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaExcused

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA07770 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA07770 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7770

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. TORRES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the commissioner
 of labor to prepare an annual report on the cost of living, poverty
 rates and adequacy of the current minimum wage in the state

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

 1 Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 17 to read as follows:
 3 17. Shall prepare and submit to the governor, the temporary president
 4 of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs of the senate
 5 and assembly committees on labor on or before the thirtieth day of
 6 September an annual report on the state's cost of living, poverty rates,
 7 and the adequacy of the current minimum wage. The report shall analyze
 8 the change in living costs using the available and widely consulted cost
 9 of living measures, including, but not limited to the true cost of
 10 economic security (TCES) measure, the MIT living wage calculator, the
 11 economic policy institute (EPI) family budget calculator, and the
 12 University of Washington self-sufficiency standard. The report shall
 13 also analyze changes in poverty and child poverty for households that
 14 include one or more workers, using American Community Survey data for
 15 the latest available year. Such analysis shall examine changes in the
 16 specified measures for each year since December thirty-first, two thou-
 17 sand eighteen, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability
 18 status, household size, profession and education level for each of the
 19 four regions of the state, which shall be defined as: the city of New
 20 York; the suburban counties of Westchester, Suffolk and Nassau; the
 21 Hudson Valley counties of Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Ulster, Greene,
 22 Dutchess, Columbia, Albany, and Rensselaer; and the counties of the
 23 remainder of the state. The report shall also compare the current and
 24 projected future value of the state's upstate minimum wage with the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08402-04-5

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 1 minimum wages in other high-cost states, including but not limited to
 2 Washington, California and Hawaii, and compare the current and projected
 3 future value of