Bill Text: NY A00627 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to establish guidelines relating to the disqualification of contractors applying to perform stand-by contracts relating to past performance, reasonableness of pricing, acts of negligence and convictions for certain crimes reflecting on honesty, integrity and capability of any contractor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-26 - reported referred to codes [A00627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00627-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          627
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         guidelines for disqualifying stand-by contractors
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision  4  of  section  3-0309  of  the  environmental
    2  conservation  law  is  amended  by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
    3  follows:
    4    A-1. GUIDELINES FOR DISQUALIFYING CONTRACTORS  WHICH  SHALL  BE  BASED
    5  UPON SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE-B OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND SUCH
    6  OTHER  FACTORS  DEEMED  APPROPRIATE  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PAST
    7  PERFORMANCE ON STATE CONTRACTS, REASONABLENESS OF PRICE CHARGED FOR PAST
    8  PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, ANY NEGLIGENCE OR MALFEASANCE  COMMITTED
    9  DURING  THE PAST PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, AND ANY CONVICTION OF A
   10  CRIME WHICH REFLECTS UPON THE HONESTY,  INTEGRITY  OR  CAPABILITY  OF  A
   11  CONTRACTOR;
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   13  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   14  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
   15  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
   16  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
   17  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01293-01-3