Provides grounds for attachment and relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage…

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Provides grounds for attachment and relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft

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Latest action Jan 7, 2026

Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft; relates to penalties for certain wage violations.

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Where it stands

Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A4994, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Committee

Judiciary · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Judiciary · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill amends sections of the law (Attachment under the Civil Prac- tice Law and Rules; the Business Corporations Law; the Limited Liability Company Law; and Labor Law) to strengthen current laws to increase the likelihood that victims of "wage theft" will be able to secure payment of unpaid wages for work already performed from their employers.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateMar 4, 2025Result: passed
(39) (22) (0) (2)
Vote: Committee vote · Judiciary
Senate JudiciaryFeb 25, 2025Result: passed
(13) (6) (0) (0)

Cosponsors

The sponsor's argument

Why Jessica Ramos says this is needed

This bill is needed to increase the likelihood that victims of wage theft will be able to secure payment of wages due and owing from their employers. This bill removes obstacles under current law that make it almost impossible for an employee with a wage theft claim to get an attachment order preventing the transfer of the employer's property, even after showing a judge that they're likely to win on their wage claim. The bill also removes procedural obstacles to obtaining a judg- ment against the top shareholders of a closely-held corporation or the members of an LLC. The law currently seems to allow employees to pursue claims against the people who have gained from the wage theft, but in practice, it makes it almost impossible for employees to do that. The current law requires employees to somehow figure out who those people are within a very short time period and with no publicly available information to use and this bill removes those barriers. The bill also adds language allowing employees to enforce judgments in wage cases against successor businesses that operate the same business supposedly under different ownership after a wage claim is won. Right now, the law only gives the commissioner the power to do that. The bill would allow private litigants to use the same language to enforce their judgments.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Jan 7, 2026
Died in Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
NY Assembly
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
NY Senate
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
NY Assembly
Mar 5, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
NY Assembly
Mar 4, 2025
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate

Show full history (6 earlier events)

Mar 4, 2025
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate
Mar 3, 2025
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
Feb 26, 2025
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate
Feb 25, 2025
1ST Report CAL.370
1ST REPORT CAL.370
NY Senate
Feb 10, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
NY Assembly
Feb 10, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
NY Senate

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