Bill Text: NY S03489 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows Westchester county to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - PRINT NUMBER 3489B [S03489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03489-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3489--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing West-
          chester  county  to  require bidders for public works, construction or
          purchase contracts to hire and  retain  persons  residing  in  certain
          targeted communities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general municipal  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 103-h to read as follows:
     3    §  103-h.  Contracts  for public works in Westchester county; targeted
     4  communities. 1. For the purposes of this section, a "targeted community"
     5  shall mean any city, town, or village or census tract within  a  munici-
     6  pality,  within  a county where the combined average of the unemployment
     7  rate and the poverty rate of such community is greater than the combined
     8  countywide average of unemployment and poverty rate by ten percent.
     9    2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the county of Westchester may
    10  require the lowest responsible bidder for all public works, construction
    11  or purchase contracts to hire and retain  persons  residing  in  certain
    12  targeted  communities  having  the  highest rates of unemployment within
    13  such county.
    14    3. The county may require that:
    15    a. at least ten percent of the labor costs of  construction  contracts
    16  awarded  by the county be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted
    17  communities within that county;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3489--B                          2
     1    b. at  least  twenty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of  construction
     2  contracts be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted communities,
     3  if  the  combined  average  unemployment and poverty rate for a targeted
     4  community is greater than twenty  percent  of  the  combined  countywide
     5  average of unemployment rate and the poverty rate; and
     6    c.  at  least  thirty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of construction
     7  contracts cost be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted  commu-
     8  nities  if  the combined average community unemployment and poverty rate
     9  is greater than thirty percent of the  combined  countywide  average  of
    10  unemployment rate and the poverty rate.
    11    4.  The  combined  average unemployment rate and poverty rate shall be
    12  computed annually based on statistics published by the  New  York  state
    13  bureau of labor statistics or similar government agencies for the period
    14  ending December thirty-first of the year preceding the year in which the
    15  contract  is  awarded.  The  county, in its sole discretion, may use the
    16  most recent United States census data in  determining  the  unemployment
    17  rate  and  poverty  rate  of a targeted community or combined countywide
    18  unemployment rate and poverty rate instead of data published by the  New
    19  York state bureau of labor statistics. The combined average shall be the
    20  sum  of the preceding year end unemployment rate plus the preceding year
    21  end poverty rate divided by two.
    22    5. The combined average unemployment rate and poverty  rate  shall  be
    23  established  annually  by  resolution  or  local law of the county.  The
    24  county may require bidders to hire and retain persons who were previous-
    25  ly incarcerated and who are participating in a re-entry program in  such
    26  county.
    27    6.  The  county may require the lowest responsible bidder to establish
    28  apprenticeship and training programs for  workers  residing  within  the
    29  targeted  communities  in  certain  construction  trades  specified in a
    30  resolution or local law passed by such county.
    31    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    32  have become a law.