Bill Text: NY S02557 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expands the definition of electric plant; provides for employees of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to be paid a certain wage in certain situations; repeals certain provisions relating to the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-03-25 - SIGNED CHAP.87 [S02557 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02557-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2557 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 21, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to including nuclear power reactors as part of the definition of "electric plant"; to provide for employees of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to be paid certain wages in the event such plant is sold, transferred or leased; and to repeal certain provisions of the labor law and the public service law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, 2 any corporation, firm, company, partnership, limited liability company 3 or association with a contract to purchase the Indian Point Nuclear 4 Power Plant, or involved in any transfer or lease, as well as any decom- 5 missioning activities, by the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant of its 6 franchise, works or system or any part of such franchise, works or 7 system shall provide that employees of the Indian Point Nuclear Power 8 Plant shall be paid a wage of not less than the prevailing wage in the 9 locality where the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant is located. The 10 provisions of this act shall be enforced in a manner consistent with 11 article 8 of the labor law in the case of construction work, or article 12 9 of the labor law in the case of building service work. 13 Nothing in this act shall be deemed to diminish the rights, privi- 14 leges, or remedies of any current or former employee under any other law 15 or regulation or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment 16 contract. 17 § 2. Any transferee or purchaser corporation, firm, company, partner- 18 ship, limited liability company, or association engaged in the transfer, 19 lease or sale of any franchise, works or system of a nuclear power plant 20 within sixty miles of a city with a population of one million or more 21 shall be bound by any collective bargaining agreement applicable to the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08715-01-1S. 2557 2 1 current workforce as of the effective date of this act pursuant to the 2 terms of such agreement. 3 § 3. Section 220-i of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the laws 4 of 2020, amending the labor law and the public service law relating to 5 establishing requirements for the transfer, sale, lease and any decom- 6 missioning activities of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, as 7 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 and A. 10338, is REPEALED. 8 § 4. Section 231-a of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the laws 9 of 2020, amending the labor law and the public service law relating to 10 establishing requirements for the transfer, sale, lease and any decom- 11 missioning activities of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, as 12 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 and A. 10338, is REPEALED. 13 § 5. Subdivision 8 of section 70 of the public service law, as added 14 by a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law and the public 15 service law relating to establishing requirements for the transfer, 16 sale, lease and any decommissioning activities of the Indian Point 17 Nuclear Power Plant, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 18 and A. 10338, is REPEALED. 19 § 6. Subdivision 12 of section 2 of the public service law is amended 20 to read as follows: 21 12. The term "electric plant," when used in this chapter, includes all 22 real estate, fixtures and personal property operated, owned, used or to 23 be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the generation, tran- 24 smission, distribution, sale or furnishing of electricity for light, 25 heat or power; and any conduits, ducts or other devices, materials, 26 apparatus or property for containing, holding or carrying conductors 27 used or to be used for the transmission of electricity for light, heat 28 or power, and also includes retired nuclear power reactors and their 29 associated systems, structures, fuel and waste storage facilities, real 30 estate, fixtures and personal property. 31 § 7. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 32 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law and the 33 public service law relating to establishing requirements for the trans- 34 fer, sale, lease and any decommissioning activities of the Indian Point 35 Nuclear Power Plant, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 36 and A. 10338, takes effect, provided, however, that sections two and six 37 of this act shall take effect immediately.
