S5026 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "freelance isn't free act"; provides for the payment of freelance workers as independent contractors, including requiring written contracts; timely payment of compensation and handling controversies relating to payment, complaint procedures, and penalties; excludes construction contracts.
- Title
- Relates to protections for freelance workers
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- Signed by Governor
- Latest action date
- 2023-11-21
- Introduced
- 2023-02-22
- Same as
- A6040
- Law section
- Labor Law
Sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Labor NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A6040 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A6040 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Finance, 2023-05-16 First reading
- Labor, 2023-05-02 Referred to committee; referred to Finance