Bill Text: NY S03489 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows Westchester county to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - PRINT NUMBER 3489B [S03489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03489-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3489--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing West-
          chester county to require bidders for public  works,  construction  or
          purchase  contracts  to  hire  and  retain persons residing in certain
          targeted communities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 103-h to read as follows:
     3    § 103-h. Contracts for public works in  Westchester  county;  targeted
     4  communities. 1. For the purposes of this section, a "targeted community"
     5  shall  mean  any city, town, or village or census tract within a munici-
     6  pality, within a county where the combined average of  the  unemployment
     7  rate and the poverty rate of such community is greater than the combined
     8  countywide average of unemployment and poverty rate by ten percent.
     9    2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the county of Westchester may
    10  require the lowest responsible bidder for all public works, construction
    11  or  purchase  contracts  to  hire and retain persons residing in certain
    12  targeted communities having the highest  rates  of  unemployment  within
    13  such county.
    14    3. The county may require that:
    15    a.  at  least ten percent of the labor costs of construction contracts
    16  awarded by the county be spent to hire persons residing in the  targeted
    17  communities within that county;
    18    b.  at  least  twenty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of construction
    19  contracts be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted communities,
    20  if the combined average unemployment and poverty  rate  for  a  targeted
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08618-03-8
        S. 3489--A                          2
     1  community  is  greater  than  twenty  percent of the combined countywide
     2  average of unemployment rate and the poverty rate; and
     3    c.  at  least  thirty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of construction
     4  contracts cost be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted  commu-
     5  nities  if  the combined average community unemployment and poverty rate
     6  is greater than thirty percent of the  combined  countywide  average  of
     7  unemployment rate and the poverty rate.
     8    4.  The  combined  average unemployment rate and poverty rate shall be
     9  computed annually based on statistics published by the  New  York  state
    10  bureau of labor statistics or similar government agencies for the period
    11  ending December thirty-first of the year preceding the year in which the
    12  contract  is  awarded.  The  county, in its sole discretion, may use the
    13  most recent United States census data in  determining  the  unemployment
    14  rate  and  poverty  rate  of a targeted community or combined countywide
    15  unemployment rate and poverty rate instead of data published by the  New
    16  York state bureau of labor statistics. The combined average shall be the
    17  sum  of the preceding year end unemployment rate plus the preceding year
    18  end poverty rate divided by two.
    19    5. The combined average unemployment rate and poverty  rate  shall  be
    20  established annually by resolution or local law of the county.
    21    6.  The  county may require the lowest responsible bidder to establish
    22  apprenticeship and training programs for  workers  residing  within  the
    23  targeted  communities  in  certain  construction  trades  specified in a
    24  resolution or local law passed by such county.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.