Bill Text: NY S04668 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prevailing wage requirements applicable to public works and certain construction projects performed under private contract and paid for with public funds.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S04668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04668-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4668

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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 prevailing  wage  require-
          ments  applicable  to public works and construction projects performed
          under private contract

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 220 of the labor law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph m to read as follows:
     3    m. "Public works" shall mean all fixed works constructed or demolished
     4  by  any  public  body or paid for wholly or in part out of public funds.
     5  "Public works" shall include all projects financed in whole or  in  part
     6  with  bonds,  grants, loans, or other funds made available by or through
     7  the state or any of its political subdivisions.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 1 and paragraph a of subdivision 2 of  section  224-a
     9  of the labor law, as added by section 1 of part FFF of chapter 58 of the
    10  laws of 2020, are amended to read as follows:
    11    1.  Subject  to the provisions of this section, each "covered project"
    12  as defined in this section shall be subject to prevailing wage  require-
    13  ments  in  accordance  with  section  two hundred twenty and two hundred
    14  twenty-b of this article. A "covered project"  shall  mean  construction
    15  work  done  under  contract which is paid for in whole or in part out of
    16  public funds as such term is defined in this section [where  the  amount
    17  of all such public funds, when aggregated, is at least thirty percent of
    18  the  total  construction project costs and] where such project costs are
    19  over five million dollars except as provided for by section two  hundred
    20  twenty-four-c of this article.
    21    a.  The  payment of money, by a public entity, or a third party acting
    22  on behalf of and for the benefit of a public entity, directly to  or  on
    23  behalf of the contractor, subcontractor, developer or owner [that is not
    24  subject to repayment];
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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