Bill Text: NY A05935 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires specification of the average weekly paid wage to employees in contractors' annual employment reports, and requires such reports to be made available in a searchable public database on the public website of the state procurement council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-12 - advanced to third reading cal.601 [A05935 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05935-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5935
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 9, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  state  finance  law,  in relation to purchasing
         services and commodities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  g of subdivision 4 of section 163 of the state
    2  finance law, as added by chapter 10 of the laws of 2006, is  amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    g.  All  state  agencies shall require all contractors, including sub-
    5  contractors, that provide services for  state  purposes  pursuant  to  a
    6  contract,  to  submit  an annual employment report for each contract for
    7  services that includes for each employment category within the  contract
    8  the number of employees employed to provide services under the contract,
    9  the  number of hours they work [and], their total compensation under the
   10  contract AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN  EACH  EMPLOY-
   11  MENT CATEGORY.  Employment reports shall be submitted to the agency that
   12  awarded the contract, the department of civil service and the department
   13  of  audit  and  control and shall be available for public inspection and
   14  copying pursuant to section eighty-seven  of  the  public  officers  law
   15  provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to the public officers
   16  law,  the  agency  making the disclosure shall redact the name or social
   17  security number of any individual employee  that  is  included  in  such
   18  document.
   19    S 2.  Paragraphs c and f of subdivision 14 of section 163 of the state
   20  finance law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, are amended to
   21  read as follows:
   22    c. The report required pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph a of
   23  this subdivision shall include:
   24    (i)  information required to be reported by the contractor annually by
   25  the employment category  within  the  contract,  including  the  planned
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 5935                             2
    1  number  of employees to provide services under the contract, the planned
    2  number of hours to be worked under the contract, [and] the total compen-
    3  sation planned under the contract, AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE  PAID  TO
    4  EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY; and
    5    (ii)  information  required  to be reported by the contractor annually
    6  pursuant to paragraph g of subdivision four  of  this  section,  specif-
    7  ically,  the  actual  number of employees, by employment category within
    8  the contract, employed to  provide  services  under  the  contract,  the
    9  number of hours worked [and], TOTAL COMPENSATION UNDER THE CONTRACT, AND
   10  THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY.
   11    f.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
   12  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
   13  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
   14  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
   15  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
   16  included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
   17  SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
   18  OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
   19    S 3. Paragraph c of subdivision 15 of section 163 of the state finance
   20  law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read  as
   21  follows:
   22    c.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
   23  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
   24  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
   25  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
   26  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
   27  included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
   28  SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
   29  OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
   30    S 4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however,  that
   31  the  amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by sections
   32  one, two and three of this act shall  not  affect  the  repeal  of  such
   33  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.