Bill Text: NY A02127 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2127 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring proof of payment of the prevailing wage for certain state contracts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to labor [A02127 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A02127-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2127
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. JOHN, NOLAN, PERALTA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. GALEF, GOTTFRIED, LIFTON, O'DONNELL, PHEFFER, WEISENBERG -- read
         once and referred to the Committee on Labor
       AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring proof of payment
         of the prevailing wage for certain state contracts
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  220  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. IN ANY INSTANCE IN WHICH THE VARIATION BETWEEN THE LOW BID ON  ANY
    4  PUBLIC WORK CONTRACT OR SUBCONTRACT WITH THE STATE, ANY MUNICIPAL CORPO-
    5  RATION,  OR  PUBLIC BODY AND THE NEXT LOWEST BID IS TEN PERCENT OR MORE,
    6  OR IS TEN PERCENT LOWER THAN THE CONTRACTING ENTITY'S  ESTIMATE  OF  THE
    7  PROJECT'S  COST,  THE LOW BIDDER SHALL PROVIDE PROOF TO THE SATISFACTION
    8  OF THE CONTRACTING ENTITY THAT THE PREVAILING WAGE WILL BE PAID, FAILING
    9  WHICH, SUCH BID SHALL BE REJECTED.
   10    S 2. Section 231 of the labor law is amended by adding a new  subdivi-
   11  sion 8 to read as follows:
   12    8.  IN  ANY INSTANCE IN WHICH THE VARIATION BETWEEN THE LOW BID ON ANY
   13  PUBLIC WORK CONTRACT OR SUBCONTRACT WITH THE STATE, ANY MUNICIPAL CORPO-
   14  RATION, OR PUBLIC BODY AND THE NEXT LOWEST BID IS TEN PERCENT  OR  MORE,
   15  OR  IS  TEN  PERCENT LOWER THAN THE CONTRACTING ENTITY'S ESTIMATE OF THE
   16  PROJECT'S COST, THE LOW BIDDER SHALL PROVIDE PROOF TO  THE  SATISFACTION
   17  OF THE CONTRACTING ENTITY THAT THE PREVAILING WAGE WILL BE PAID, FAILING
   18  WHICH, SUCH BID SHALL BE REJECTED.
   19    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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