What's happening
This bill requires independent contractors with contracts over $2,500 to be included in New York's state directory of new hires for child support enforcement.
Why it matters
Expands child support enforcement. By requiring independent contractors with contracts over $2,500 to be reported, the bill closes a loophole that previously allowed many non-traditional workers to avoid detection in child support cases, potentially increasing compliance and collections.
Reflects changes in the workforce. As gig and freelance work become more common, this amendment ensures that child support enforcement tools keep pace with modern employment arrangements and are not limited to traditional payroll employees.
Impacts businesses and contractors. Companies and agencies that hire independent contractors will have new administrative responsibilities, needing to report qualifying contractors to the state directory, which could affect how contracts are managed and tracked.
May increase privacy and administrative concerns. Independent contractors, who may not expect to have their work reported in the same way as employees, could face new privacy considerations and potential scrutiny if they owe child support, while agencies must handle sensitive data accurately.
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Add Contractors to New Hire List
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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to investigations and government operations
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.10
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to investigations and government operations
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.214
- Reported
- Referred to ways and means
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Add Contractors to New Hire List
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Anna Kaplan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
263
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLE- BRIGHT, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to including certain independent contractors in the state directory of new hires to aid in the administration of the child support enforcement program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 171-h of the tax law, as amended by chapter 398 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
(a) "employee" means an individual who is an employee within the meaning of chapter twenty-four of the internal revenue code of 1986, including an individual under an independent contractor arrangement with contracts in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars, and does not include an employee of a federal or state agency performing intelligence or counterintelligence functions if the head of such agency has determined that a report made pursuant to this section with respect to the individual could endanger the safety of the employee or compromise an ongoing investigation or intelligence mission.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00025-01-9
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