Bill Text: NY A04023 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows state entities to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to local governments [A04023 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04023-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4023
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing state
          entities to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase
          contracts to hire and retain  persons  residing  in  certain  targeted
          communities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 103-h to read as follows:
     3    §  103-h. Contracts for public works; targeted communities. 1. For the
     4  purposes of this section, a "targeted community" shall  mean  any  city,
     5  town, or village within a county where the combined average of the unem-
     6  ployment rate and the poverty rate of such community is greater than the
     7  combined  countywide  average  of  unemployment  and poverty rate by ten
     8  percent.
     9    2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, any state entity may  require
    10  the  lowest  responsible  bidder  for  all public works, construction or
    11  purchase contracts to  hire  and  retain  persons  residing  in  certain
    12  targeted  communities  having  the  highest rates of unemployment within
    13  such county.
    14    3. The state entity may require that:
    15    a. at least ten percent of the labor costs of  construction  contracts
    16  awarded  by  the  state  entity be spent to hire persons residing in the
    17  targeted communities within the county in which the majority of the work
    18  will be completed;
    19    b. at  least  twenty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of  construction
    20  contracts be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted communities,
    21  if  the  combined  average  unemployment and poverty rate for a targeted
    22  community is greater than twenty  percent  of  the  combined  countywide
    23  average of unemployment rate and the poverty rate; and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08696-01-7
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     1    c.  at  least  thirty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of construction
     2  contracts cost be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted  commu-
     3  nities  if  the combined average community unemployment and poverty rate
     4  is greater than thirty percent of the  combined  countywide  average  of
     5  unemployment rate and the poverty rate.
     6    4.  The  combined  average unemployment rate and poverty rate shall be
     7  computed annually based on statistics published by the  New  York  state
     8  bureau of labor statistics or similar government agencies for the period
     9  ending December thirty-first of the year preceding the year in which the
    10  contract  is  awarded.  The  combined  average  shall  be the sum of the
    11  preceding year end unemployment rate plus the preceding year end poverty
    12  rate divided by two.
    13    5. The combined average unemployment rate and poverty  rate  shall  be
    14  established annually by resolution or local law of the county.
    15    6.  The  state  entity  may  require  the lowest responsible bidder to
    16  establish apprenticeship and  training  programs  for  workers  residing
    17  within the targeted communities in certain construction trades.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.