Bill Text: NY A07607 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that a minimum of ten percent of the labor hours of the total construction workforce employed by all contractors and subcontractors performing work pursuant to a construction contract shall be performed by a person or persons participating in a certified apprenticeship program; makes technical amendments.

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A07607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07607-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7607

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to apprenticeship training

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading, the opening paragraph of subdivision 1
     2  and  subdivision  2 of section 811 of the labor law, the section heading
     3  and the opening paragraph of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 482  of
     4  the  laws of 1961 and subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 51 of the laws
     5  of 1968, are amended to read as follows:
     6    Powers and duties of [industrial] the commissioner; personnel.
     7    The [industrial] commissioner shall  have  the  following  powers  and
     8  duties:
     9    2.  The  [industrial] commissioner shall appoint a person who shall be
    10  in charge of apprentice training in the department [of labor],  and  who
    11  shall  act as secretary of the state apprenticeship and training council
    12  and of state joint apprenticeship committees. The  [industrial]  commis-
    13  sioner  is  further  authorized to appoint such clerical, technical, and
    14  professional assistants as shall be necessary to effectuate the purposes
    15  of this article.  The  personnel  appointed  under  this  article  shall
    16  receive  an  annual compensation to be fixed by the [industrial] commis-
    17  sioner within the amount provided by appropriation.
    18    § 2. Section 816-b of the labor law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    19  vision 3 to read as follows:
    20    3. The commissioner shall require that a minimum of ten percent of the
    21  labor hours of the total construction workforce employed by all contrac-
    22  tors  and  subcontractors  performing  work  pursuant  to a construction
    23  contract as defined by this paragraph (b) of  subdivision  one  of  this
    24  section  shall  be  performed  by a person or persons participating in a
    25  certified apprenticeship program pursuant to this  article.  Only  hours
    26  worked  by  a person or persons in the construction trade for which they

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  are registered as an apprentice, and only hours worked by  such  appren-
     2  tice according to the allowable ratio of apprentice to journey worker as
     3  stated  under the applicable prevailing wage schedule, may count towards
     4  the ten percent labor hour requirement.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law.