Bill Text: NY A05550 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates the delivery of fossil fuel from those building services for which municipalities are required to pay minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A05550 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05550-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5550
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 13, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eliminating  the  delivery
          of  fossil  fuel from those building services for which municipalities
          are required to pay prevailing wage
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 230 of the labor law, as amended
     2  by chapter 542 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. "Building service employee" or "employee" means any person perform-
     4  ing work in connection with the  care  or  maintenance  of  an  existing
     5  building,  or  in connection with the transportation of office furniture
     6  or equipment to or from such building, [or in connection with the trans-
     7  portation and delivery of fossil fuel to such building,] for a  contrac-
     8  tor  under  a  contract  with  a public agency which is in excess of one
     9  thousand five hundred dollars and the principal purpose of which  is  to
    10  furnish services through the use of building service employees.
    11    "Building  service employee" or "employee" includes, but is not limit-
    12  ed, to, watchman, guard, doorman, building  cleaner,  porter,  handyman,
    13  janitor,  gardener, groundskeeper, stationary fireman, elevator operator
    14  and starter, window cleaner, and occupations relating to the  collection
    15  of  garbage or refuse, and to the transportation of office furniture and
    16  equipment, [and to the transportation and delivery of fossil  fuel]  but
    17  does  not  include clerical, sales, professional, technician and related
    18  occupations.
    19    "Building service employee" or "employee" also does  not  include  any
    20  employee  to whom the provisions of articles eight and [eight-a] eight-A
    21  of this chapter are applicable.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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