Bill Text: NY A11096 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to prioritize and hire union labor for proposed public work before making a contract available for public bidding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A11096 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11096-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11096

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reyes) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions

        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prioritizing
          union labor for certain transit projects of the metropolitan transpor-
          tation authority

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 1265-a of the public author-
     2  ities  law,  as  added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    [Contracts] Union labor and contracts for public work.
     5    § 2. Section 1265-a of the public authorities law is amended by adding
     6  a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     7    1-a. Union labor. (a) For any contract for public work  the  authority
     8  shall  first  make  substantive effort to utilize union labor for all or
     9  significant aspects of the public work.
    10    (b) The authority shall determine the feasibility and  appropriateness
    11  of  union  labor  by taking into consideration, among other factors, the
    12  availability of skills and expertise in relation to the requirements  of
    13  the public work.
    14    (c) Substantive efforts to secure union labor for proposed public work
    15  shall  include  but  not  be  limited to, publishing and advertising the
    16  proposed public work, conducting outreach to relevant labor  unions  and
    17  holding a meeting regarding the nature and terms of such proposed public
    18  work.
    19    (d)  Upon  failing  to  secure  union  labor and prior to publishing a
    20  contract for public work, the authority shall send a written  notice  to
    21  the  city  commissioner  of transportation, the comptroller and the city
    22  commissioner of labor explaining with specific detail:
    23    (i) the effort the authority  made  to  secure  union  labor  for  the
    24  proposed public work;
    25    (ii) that such effort failed; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iii)  the intention of the authority to publish a contract for public
     2  bidding as a result.
     3    (e)  The authority shall spend a minimum of twenty business days seek-
     4  ing union labor for the proposed public work.
     5    (f) Contract for public work may be published for bidding  only  after
     6  substantive effort to engage and secure union labor has been made by the
     7  authority  and  only after written notice has been submitted to the city
     8  commissioner of transportation, the comptroller and the city commission-
     9  er of labor.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.