Bill Text: NY A02337 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires certain contractor, subcontractor and worker certifications for certain contracts which involve industrial painting or industrial coating work.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A02337 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02337-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2337--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WALLACE, RYAN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, the highway law  and  the  public
          authorities law, in relation to certain contracts involving industrial
          painting and industrial coatings

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

     1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  136-d to read as follows:
     3    §  136-d. Contracts involving industrial painting and industrial coat-
     4  ings. 1. Any contract receiving state financial assistance that includes
     5  industrial painting  or  industrial  coating  shall  include  provisions
     6  regarding contractor, subcontractor and worker certification as follows:
     7    a.  Contractors  and  subcontractors  doing  work involving industrial
     8  painting and industrial coatings shall be certified by the  society  for
     9  protective coatings' painting contractor certification program to a QP-1
    10  certification entitled "Standard Procedure for Evaluating Qualifications
    11  of Painting Contractors: Field Application to Complex Structures," or an
    12  equivalent certification and/or accreditation, including but not limited
    13  to  an  accreditation  provided  by  the  NACE  International  Institute
    14  Contractor Accreditation Program (NIICAP) AS-1 "Field and/or Shop  Coat-
    15  ing Accreditation".
    16    b.  Contractors  and  subcontractors  doing  work involving industrial
    17  painting and industrial coatings that requires the disturbance  of  lead
    18  based  paint  or other hazardous materials shall be certified to society
    19  for protective coatings'  QP-2  certification  "Standard  Procedure  for
    20  Evaluating  the Qualifications of Painting Contractors to Remove Hazard-
    21  ous Paint," or an equivalent certification, including but not limited to
    22  an accreditation provided by the NACE International Institute Contractor

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00400-03-9

        A. 2337--A                          2

     1  Accreditation Program (NIICAP) AS-2 "Hazardous Waste Removal and Remedi-
     2  ation Accreditation".
     3    c.  Contractors  and subcontractors shall be required to have at least
     4  two coatings application specialist level II or Certified Coating Appli-
     5  cator Specialist, SSPC ACS-1/NACE 13 certified craft workers.  One  such
     6  certified  craft worker shall be required to be present for all crews up
     7  to four crew members. For each crew larger than four members,  an  addi-
     8  tional  coatings  application  specialist level II or Certified Counting
     9  Applicator Specialist SSPC ACS-1/NACE 13 certified craft worker shall be
    10  present on each painting or blasting  crew  during  blast  cleaning  and
    11  spray application operations.
    12    2.  For the purposes of this section, a crew member is a person who is
    13  on the job performing handheld nozzle blast cleaning or  spray  applica-
    14  tion of protective coatings on a steel structure.
    15    3.  Any  certifications required by this section shall be kept current
    16  for the duration of the contract.
    17    4. Any violation of this section shall be grounds for cancellation  of
    18  the contract.
    19    § 2. Section 38 of the highway law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
    20  sion 2-b to read as follows:
    21    2-b.  Contracts;  industrial  painting  and  industrial  coatings.  In
    22  regards to contracts for construction or improvement  of  highways  that
    23  utilize  industrial  painting  or  industrial coatings, the commissioner
    24  shall certify that  such  project  complies  with  the  requirements  of
    25  section one hundred thirty-six-d of the state finance law.
    26    § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 1285-s of the public authorities law, as
    27  added  by  section  7  of  part  T of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is
    28  amended to read as follows:
    29    3. Intermunicipal water quality infrastructure projects financed  with
    30  state financial assistance made available pursuant to this section shall
    31  be  subject  to  the requirements of article eight of the labor law, the
    32  requirements of article seventeen-B of the executive law,  the  require-
    33  ments  of  section one hundred thirty-six-d of the state finance law and
    34  the requirements and provisions of all applicable minority-  and  women-
    35  owned  business mandates including, but not limited to article fifteen-A
    36  of the executive law.
    37    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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