---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions shall be unenforceable"
description: "Provides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions that are made on the employee's own time and which do not use the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information shall be unenforceable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "S 5640"
citation: "New York S 5640 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jessica Ramos"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-10"
last_action: "2023-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32597991-cf87-48b5-b4ef-6971821b6db3"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S5640"
source_hash: "e22a4d3c76bc7dbdab5bf371fa0ea16929da09ca7de05bb5b19732c38c2e03cc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5640 (2023-2024) — Provides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions shall be unenforceable

Provides that employment provisions that require an employee to assign certain inventions that are made on the employee's own time and which do not use the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information shall be unenforceable.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5640&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **58–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **147–1** (pass) · lower
- Labor Vote — **13–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jessica Ramos — primary (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-03-10** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-25** 1ST REPORT CAL.655
- **2023-04-26** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2023-05-01** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2023-06-01** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-01** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-06-01** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5295
- **2023-06-06** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.242
- **2023-06-06** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-06** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2023-09-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-09-15** SIGNED CHAP.434 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32597991-cf87-48b5-b4ef-6971821b6db3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).