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NY A09309
Bill
Status
12/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Paul Bologna
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AI Summary
- Freezes New York State minimum wage rates at 2026 levels indefinitely, eliminating automatic annual increases that were scheduled to begin in 2027
- Maintains minimum wage at $17.00 per hour for New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties starting January 1, 2026
- Maintains minimum wage at $16.00 per hour for the remainder of the state starting January 1, 2026
- Repeals the automatic inflation adjustment mechanism that would have tied future minimum wage increases to the Consumer Price Index for the Northeast region (CPI-W)
- Preserves existing wage order provisions for tipped food service workers at two-thirds of the minimum wage (or $7.50, whichever is higher) but removes references to the repealed inflation adjustment subdivision
Legislative Description
Freezes minimum wage automatic escalators and annual inflation adjustments beginning in 2027; repeals the provision of law providing that the minimum wage shall be determined by increasing the then current year's minimum wage rate by the rate of change in the average of the three most recent consecutive twelve-month periods between the first of August and the thirty-first of July, each over their preceding twelve-month periods published by the United States department of labor non-seasonally adjusted consumer price index for the northeast region urban wage earners and clerical workers (CPI-W) or any successor index as calculated by the United States department of labor.
Last Action
referred to labor
1/7/2026