Bill Text: NY S05215 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5215 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires specification of the average weekly paid wage to employees in contractors' annual employment reports, and requires such reports to be made available in a searchable public database on the public website of the state procurement council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S05215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05215-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5215
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
       AN ACT to amend  the  state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  purchasing
         services and commodities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph g of subdivision 4 of section 163  of  the  state
    2  finance  law,  as added by chapter 10 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
    3  read as follows:
    4    g. All state agencies shall require all  contractors,  including  sub-
    5  contractors,  that  provide  services  for  state purposes pursuant to a
    6  contract, to submit an annual employment report for  each  contract  for
    7  services  that includes for each employment category within the contract
    8  the number of employees employed to provide services under the contract,
    9  the number of hours they work [and], their total compensation under  the
   10  contract  AND  THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOY-
   11  MENT CATEGORY.  Employment reports shall be submitted to the agency that
   12  awarded the contract, the department of civil service and the department
   13  of audit and control and shall be available for  public  inspection  and
   14  copying  pursuant  to  section  eighty-seven  of the public officers law
   15  provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to the public officers
   16  law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact the  name  or  social
   17  security  number  of  any  individual  employee that is included in such
   18  document.
   19    S 2.  Paragraphs c and f of subdivision 14 of section 163 of the state
   20  finance law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, are amended to
   21  read as follows:
   22    c. The report required pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph a of
   23  this subdivision shall include:
   24    (i) information required to be reported by the contractor annually  by
   25  the  employment  category  within  the  contract,  including the planned
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08492-02-5
       S. 5215                             2
    1  number of employees to provide services under the contract, the  planned
    2  number of hours to be worked under the contract, [and] the total compen-
    3  sation  planned  under the contract, AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO
    4  EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY; and
    5    (ii)  information  required  to be reported by the contractor annually
    6  pursuant to paragraph g of subdivision four  of  this  section,  specif-
    7  ically,  the  actual  number of employees, by employment category within
    8  the contract, employed to  provide  services  under  the  contract,  the
    9  number of hours worked [and], TOTAL COMPENSATION UNDER THE CONTRACT, AND
   10  THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY.
   11    f.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
   12  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
   13  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
   14  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
   15  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
   16  included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
   17  SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
   18  OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
   19    S 3. Paragraph c of subdivision 15 of section 163 of the state finance
   20  law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read  as
   21  follows:
   22    c.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
   23  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
   24  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
   25  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
   26  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
   27  included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
   28  SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
   29  OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
   30    S 4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however,  that
   31  the  amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by sections
   32  one, two and three of this act shall  not  affect  the  repeal  of  such
   33  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.