Bill Text: NY S07118 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires payment of prevailing wage to all employees, contractors and subcontractors of water-works corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S07118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07118-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7118

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law and the public service law, in relation to
          requiring payment of prevailing wage to all employees, contractors and
          subcontractors of water-works corporations

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

     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 220-j to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 220-j. Water-works corporations; prevailing wage. 1. Notwithstanding
     4  any other provision of law to the contrary, any  publicly  or  privately
     5  run  water-works  corporation  as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of
     6  section two of the public service law, and any contractor or subcontrac-
     7  tor thereof shall pay to its employees a  wage  of  not  less  than  the
     8  prevailing  wage  in  the locality where such water-works corporation is
     9  located pursuant to section two hundred twenty of this article.
    10    2. Nothing in this section shall be deemed  to  diminish  the  rights,
    11  privileges,  or  remedies  of  any  current or former employee under any
    12  other law or regulation or under any collective bargaining agreement  or
    13  employment contract.
    14    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 89-q to
    15  read as follows:
    16    §  89-q. Prevailing wage. Prevailing wage shall be paid to all employ-
    17  ees, contractors and subcontractors working on behalf of  a  water-works
    18  corporation.  Any  work  performed  by  such  employees, contractors and
    19  subcontractors  shall  be  deemed  "public  work"  and  subject  to  and
    20  performed in accordance with articles eight and nine of the labor law.
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10655-01-1