Assembly Bill A6796

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the payment of wages for certain persons employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity

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Current Bill Status Via S5572 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A6796 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5572
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§190, 192 & 198-c, Lab L

2023-A6796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the threshold for applicability of wage payment protections for certain persons employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity, from $900 to $1,300 per week.

2023-A6796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6796
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to increasing the earnings
   threshold for the applicability of certain provisions of law  relating
   to the payment of wages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 190 of the labor law,  as  amended
 by chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  "Clerical and other worker" includes all employees not included in
 subdivisions four, five and six  of  this  section,  except  any  person
 employed in a bona fide executive, administrative or professional capac-
 ity  whose  earnings  are in excess of [nine] ONE THOUSAND THREE hundred
 dollars a week.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 192 of the labor law as amended by chap-
 ter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   2. This section shall not apply to any person employed in a bona  fide
 executive,  administrative,  or professional capacity whose earnings are
 in excess of [nine] ONE THOUSAND THREE hundred dollars a  week,  nor  to
 employees working on a farm not connected with a factory.
   §  3.  Subdivision  3  of section 198-c of the labor law as amended by
 chapter 304 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   3. This section shall not apply to any person in a  bona  fide  execu-
 tive,  administrative,  or  professional  capacity whose earnings are in
 excess of [nine] ONE THOUSAND THREE hundred dollars a week.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10062-01-3

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