Assembly Bill A2140

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for the payment of the prevailing wage for certain employees

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A2140 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220, Lab L; amd §101, Gen Muni L; amd §135, St Fin L

2009-A2140 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the payment of the prevailing wage for employees; provides that if an employee, client, inmate or student of any political subdivision performs any work for a public entity of which such person is not employed, such person shall be paid the prevailing wage.

2009-A2140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2140

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JOHN, NOLAN -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, the general municipal law and  the  state
  finance  law,  in  relation  to the payment of the prevailing wage and
  supplements for certain employees

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  220  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. IF AN EMPLOYEE, CLIENT, INMATE OR STUDENT OF ANY POLITICAL  SUBDI-
VISION,  BOARD,  AGENCY,  SCHOOL DISTRICT, PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE,
COMMISSION, PUBLIC AUTHORITY,  BOARD  OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATION,  PENAL
INSTITUTION  OR  PUBLIC  MENTAL  HEALTH  FACILITY  PERFORMS  ANY WORK OR
SERVICES PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER FOR ANY PUBLIC ENTITY  OF  WHICH  THAT
PERSON  IS  NOT  EMPLOYED,  ENROLLED, INCARCERATED OR RECEIVING SERVICES
FROM, SUCH PERSON SHALL BE COMPENSATED THE PREVAILING WAGE  AND  SUPPLE-
MENTS REQUIRED BY THIS ARTICLE BY THE PUBLIC OWNER OF THE PROJECT.
  S  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 101 of the general municipal law, as
added by chapter 861 of the laws of 1953, is amended to read as follows:
  2. Such specifications shall be drawn so as  to  permit  separate  and
independent  bidding  upon each of the above three subdivisions of work.
All contracts awarded by any political subdivision  or  by  an  officer,
board  or  agency thereof, or of any district therein, for the erection,
construction, reconstruction or alteration of  buildings,  or  any  part
thereof,  shall award the three subdivisions of the above specified work
separately in the manner provided by section one hundred three  of  this
chapter. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any poli-
tical  subdivision  from  performing  any  such  branches  of work by or
through their regular employees, or in the case of public  institutions,
by  the  inmates  thereof, PROVIDED THAT, NO EMPLOYEE, CLIENT, INMATE OR
STUDENT OF ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, BOARD,  AGENCY,  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04720-01-9

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