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Senate bill · S9755 (2025-26)

Requires a payroll services business to compile and provide annual wage and tax statements and/or year-end forms to clients

Latest action May 28, 2026

New York State Senate

Same as A11282, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Sponsor

Sam Sutton

State Senator, District 22 · Democratic

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Summary

Requires a payroll services business to compile and provide annual wage and tax statements and/or year-end forms to clients without additional cost or delay.

Summary from NY Open Legislation. How we handle summaries

Amends the General Business Law.

From NY Open Legislation, the NY Senate and Assembly, and official rosters. This record was last updated Oct 21, 2026. About our data

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Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

This bill would prevent a payroll services business from withholding, delaying, or otherwise failing to deliver its client's and client's employees' annual wage and tax statements and/or any year-end forms.

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Where it stands

Out of committee and scheduled for a vote by the full chamber.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

Committee

Consumer Affairs and Protection · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Consumer Protection · New York State Senate.

Cosponsors

Julia Salazar, Lea Webb and 1 more on Agora

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The sponsor's argument

Why Sam Sutton says this is needed

Payroll services businesses like to tack on fees for annual wage and tax statements, as well as year-end forms; however, employees of the client business then find themselves in the middle of a dispute between their employer and the payroll servicer, leading to delays in receiving neces- sary forms in order to file their taxes on time. Payroll services busi- nesses will withhold year-end forms unless and until the amounts they've requested are paid even if those amounts are disputed, leaving client businesses with the only choice to pay disputed fees in order to have statements and forms released by the payroll servicer. This bill aims to require payroll services businesses to deliver annual wage and tax statements and year-end forms to client businesses and their employees regardless of any billing disputes, which should be handled civilly. Payroll services businesses should not use these types of statements and forms as leverage to tack on additional charges to the detriment of employers and employees.

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.

Recorded votes

  • Vote: Committee vote · Consumer Protection

    Senate Consumer ProtectionMay 12, 2026Result: passed

    (7) (0) (0) (0)

Full history

  1. May 28, 2026

    Reported out of committee

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

    NY Assembly

  2. May 12, 2026

    Reported out of committee

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LABOR

    NY Senate

  3. May 11, 2026

    Reported out of committee

    REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

    NY Assembly

  4. May 6, 2026

    Amend and Recommit to Consumer Protection

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

    NY Senate

  5. May 6, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION

    NY Assembly

Show full history (1 earlier event)
  1. Apr 2, 2026

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

    NY Senate