Bill Text: NY S04004 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to qualified installers trained under the apprenticeship training program; prohibits NYSERDA from requiring additional certifications for specified work where an individual is trained under article 23 of the labor law.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-04-08 - ordered to third reading cal.536 [S04004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04004-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4004--A
           Cal. No. 347
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sens. MAZIARZ, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
         communications  --  reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
         first and second report, ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and
         ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to qualified
         installers under the state apprenticeship training program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
    2  section 1884 to read as follows:
    3    S 1884. QUALIFIED INSTALLERS. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE,  REGU-
    4  LATION  OR  POLICY  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  WITH RESPECT TO ANY SOLICITATION
    5  OFFERED BY THE AUTHORITY, ANY INDIVIDUAL ACCREDITED THROUGH  AN  APPREN-
    6  TICESHIP PROGRAM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW SHALL
    7  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE  A QUALIFIED INSTALLER FOR ANY SUCH SOLICITATION THAT
    8  FALLS SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE TRADE OR AREA FOR WHICH  SUCH  INDIVIDUAL
    9  HAS COMPLETED AN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE
   10  OF THE LABOR LAW.
   11    2.  THE  AUTHORITY  IS PROHIBITED FROM REQUIRING ADDITIONAL COURSES OR
   12  CERTIFICATIONS FOR SUCH QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS, PROVIDED  THAT  THE  WORK
   13  THAT  IS  BEING  DONE  FALLS  SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE TRADE OR AREA FOR
   14  WHICH SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS COMPLETED AN APPRENTICESHIP  PROGRAM  PURSUANT
   15  TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW.
   16    3.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE PHRASE "SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN
   17  THE TRADE OR AREA" SHALL MEAN WITHIN THE SCOPE OF WORK AS DEFINED BY THE
   18  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FOR THAT TRADE OR AREA PURSUANT TO ARTICLE EIGHT  OF
   19  THE LABOR LAW.
   20    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect immediately and shall be applied
   21  retroactively to any solicitation of the New York state energy  research
   22  and development authority where work has not already commenced.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09594-03-3