Bill Text: NY S00593 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes contractors ineligible to bid for a public work contract if prevailing rate wages and supplements due from all prior public work contracts remain unpaid.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00593 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00593-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 593 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to making contractors ineli- gible to bid for a public work contract if prevailing rate wages and supplements due from a prior public work contract remain unpaid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 220-b of the labor 2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 1-a to read as follows: 3 (1-a) When a final determination has been rendered against a contrac- 4 tor, subcontractor, successor, or any substantially-owned affiliated 5 entity of the contractor or subcontractor, any of the partners if the 6 contractor or subcontractor is a partnership, any officer of the 7 contractor or subcontractor who knowingly participated in the violation 8 of this article, any of the shareholders who own or control at least ten 9 per centum of the outstanding stock of the contractor or subcontractor 10 or any successor has wilfully failed to pay the prevailing rate of wages 11 or to provide supplements in accordance with this article, whether such 12 failures were concurrent or consecutive, such contractor, subcontractor, 13 successor, or any substantially-owned affiliated entity of the contrac- 14 tor or subcontractor, any of the partners if the contractor or subcon- 15 tractor is a partnership or any of the shareholders who own or control 16 at least ten per centum of the outstanding stock of the contractor or 17 subcontractor, any officer of the contractor or subcontractor who know- 18 ingly participated in the violation of this article shall be ineligible 19 to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract or subcontract 20 with the state, any municipal corporation or public body unless and 21 until all prevailing rates of wages and supplements due from all prior 22 public work contracts have been paid. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00052-01-7
