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NY A03909

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Harry Bronson

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Designates the week containing May 1st each year as "workplace readiness week" in all New York secondary schools
  • Requires instruction on worker rights including child labor laws, wage and hour protections, worker safety, workers' compensation, paid sick leave, anti-retaliation protections, and union organizing rights
  • Mandates that 11th and 12th grade students receive workplace readiness education integrated into the history/social science curriculum
  • Requires any minor applying for working papers to receive a document explaining basic labor rights, available in physical form and translated into languages spoken by 5% or more of students at any school
  • Includes instruction on state-approved apprenticeship programs, civil service testing and jobs, and financial literacy basics such as banking, budgeting, and tax filing

Legislative Description

Establishes workplace readiness week to educate minors in relation to their workplace rights; requires eleventh and twelfth graders to receive education on workplace rights; requires a document on workplace rights to be provided to any minor seeking working papers.

Last Action

referred to education

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Education1/30/2025

Full Bill Text

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