NY State Senate Bill 2025-S2225

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2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Labor
Law Section:: Labor Law
Laws Affected:: Add §241-c, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S5420
2021-2022: S4738
2023-2024: S5422

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to modular construction work; provides that modular construction shall comply with any existing municipal licensing requirements for all electrical, plumbing, and fire suppression work.

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2225

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the labor law, in relation to modular construction work

 
PURPOSE:

To require that modular construction projects (whether units installed
in buildings or new construction) comply with applicable local plumbing,
gas piping, electrical, and fire suppression licensing requirements,
whenever such final construction project is to be located in a city
having a population of one million or more.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This legislation amends Article 10 of the Labor Law as it relates to
building construction, demolition, and repair work by adding a new
section 241-c on modular construction work. Subdivision-a proposes a
definition of modular construction work, which is not contained in the
Labor Law. Subdivision b requires that modular construction must comply

with existing municipal licensing requirements of a city with a popu-
lation of one million or more pertaining to electrical, plumbing, and
fire suppression work regardless if any phase of such construction is
done within the geographical boundaries of such municipality.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The use of modular construction in high-rise residential, commercial and
institutional buildings (such as hospitals) in New York City is a recent
phenomenon. While the Executive Law currently covers manufactured homes,
and provides certain consumer protections, it is an outdated law, having
been passed in 2005 to implement the federal Manufactured Housing
Improvement Act of 2000, and therefore does not address NYC's current
problem. Presently, modular construction is not subject to the same
standards for plumbing, gas piping, electrical, and fire suppression
work as construction done on site within New York City. This makes no
practical sense and greatly increases the likelihood of code violations
in such modular buildings.

In 2014, the NYC Department of Buildings issued Buildings Bulletin
2014-003 stating that modular construction units must be certified
either by NYC licensees or by a "third party" entity otherwise
"approved" by the Department. However, there have been various instances
of the third-party certification process failing, resulting in required
repairs to such modular units by NYC licensees. To protect the public
from potential safety and health issues, it is crucial that the actual
work in these modular units be performed by NYC-licensed entities famil-
iar with the applicable laws, codes, and rules of the City of New York.
This change in the Labor Law assures that occupants of any modular
building located in NYC are given the same level of protection as occu-
pants of buildings completely constructed on-site.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: Reported and Committed to Finance

2023: S5422 - Referred to Labor
2022: S4738A (Ramos)- Vetoed

2021: S4738 (Ramos)-Passed the Senate

2020: S5420 (Ramos)- Referred to labor, committed to rules

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred-twentieth day after it
shall have become a law.

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2225
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. RAMOS, ADDABBO, JACKSON, MATTERA, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY
   -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
   the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to modular construction work
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 241-c to
 read as follows:
   § 241-C. MODULAR CONSTRUCTION WORK. 1. DEFINITIONS.  AS USED  IN  THIS
 SECTION THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "CITY" SHALL MEAN A CITY WITH A
 POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   (B) "MODULAR UNIT" SHALL MEAN COMPONENT PARTS ASSEMBLED AT A  LOCATION
 OTHER  THAN  THE  CONSTRUCTION SITE WITHIN A CITY WHICH ARE TO BE TRANS-
 PORTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE FOR INSTALLATION AS PART OF  A  MANUFAC-
 TURED BUILDING.
   (C)  "COMPONENT  PARTS"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY SUB-SYSTEM, SUB-ASSEMBLY, OR
 OTHER SYSTEM OR FABRICATION DESIGNED FOR USE IN OR AS PART OF  A  STRUC-
 TURE  IN A CITY, WHICH MAY INCLUDE WOODWORK, CASES, CABINETS OR COUNTERS
 AND THE FABRICATION OF ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING,  HEATING,  COOLING,  VENTI-
 LATION,  FIRE  PROTECTION,  EXHAUST  DUCT  SYSTEMS, AND MECHANICAL INSU-
 LATION, OR OTHER SYSTEMS AFFECTING HEALTH AND SAFETY, DESIGNED AND ENGI-
 NEERED FOR INSTALLATION IN THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, OR RENOVATION OF  A
 MANUFACTURED BUILDING.
   (D)  "MANUFACTURED  BUILDING" SHALL MEAN A STRUCTURE CONSISTING OF ONE
 OR MORE TRANSPORTABLE MODULAR UNITS BUILT WITHIN A MANUFACTURING FACILI-
 TY OR FACILITIES, WHERE SUCH BUILDING IS DESIGNED TO BE GREATER THAN SIX
 STORIES IN HEIGHT.
   2. ENFORCEMENT. ENFORCEMENT OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE BY THE  NEW  YORK
 CITY DEPARTMENT OF BUILDINGS.
   3. OFF-SITE ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, AND FIRE SUPPRESSION WORK. ALL ELEC-
 TRICAL,  PLUMBING, AND FIRE SUPPRESSION WORK DURING OFF-SITE ASSEMBLY OF
 A MODULAR UNIT SHALL BE PERFORMED BY AN APPLICABLE LICENSEE WITH EMPLOY-
 EES UNDER THE LICENSEE'S SUPERVISION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06039-01-5
 S. 2225                             2
 
   4. RECORDS DEMONSTRATING COMPLIANCE. EACH LICENSEE PERFORMING OFF-SITE
 ASSEMBLIES PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL MAINTAIN RECORDS DEMONSTRATING
 COMPLIANCE OF SUCH MODULAR UNIT  PURSUANT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
 SECTION  WITH  RESPECT TO THE TYPE OF WORK BEING PERFORMED. SUCH RECORDS
 SHALL BE MAINTAINED FOR AT LEAST SIX YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE ISSUANCE
 OF THE FINAL CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY FOR THE MANUFACTURED BUILDING.
   5.  LICENSEE CERTIFICATION. PRIOR TO THE TRANSPORTATION OF ANY MODULAR
 UNIT TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE  FOR  INSTALLATION  WITHIN  A  CITY,  EACH
 LICENSEE  SHALL  SUBMIT A SIGNED AND SEALED CERTIFICATION TO THE DEPART-
 MENT ATTESTING TO THE COMPLIANCE OF SUCH MODULAR UNIT  PURSUANT  TO  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SECTION  WITH  RESPECT  TO  THE TYPE OF WORK BEING
 PERFORMED. EACH MODULAR UNIT TRANSPORTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION SITE WITHIN
 A CITY SHALL BE ACCOMPANIED WITH A COPY OF THE APPLICABLE CERTIFICATIONS
 REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION. SUCH CERTIFICATIONS SHALL BE  SUBMIT-
 TED TO THE DEPARTMENT, IN A FORM AND MANNER AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPART-
 MENT,  AND  ALL INSPECTORS PRIOR TO INSTALLATION OF THE MODULAR UNIT AND
 SHALL BE MAINTAINED AT THE JOBSITE UNTIL THE COMPLETION OF THE  MANUFAC-
 TURED BUILDING.
   6.  OWNER  CERTIFICATION.  PRIOR  TO  THE ISSUANCE OF ANY WORK PERMITS
 ASSOCIATED WITH THE ON-SITE  CONSTRUCTION  OF  A  MANUFACTURED  BUILDING
 WITHIN  A CITY, THE OWNER OF SUCH MANUFACTURED BUILDING SHALL CERTIFY TO
 THE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY HIRED THE APPROPRIATE LICENSEES TO PERFORM  ALL
 ELECTRICAL,  PLUMBING,  AND  FIRE SUPPRESSION WORK FOR SUCH MODULAR UNIT
 WITH EMPLOYEES UNDER THE LICENSEES' SUPERVISION.
   7.  ON-SITE  CONSTRUCTION.  ALL   ELECTRICAL,   PLUMBING,   AND   FIRE
 SUPPRESSION  WORK  NECESSARY  FOR  INSTALLING  OR CONNECTING THE MODULAR
 UNITS ON THE CONSTRUCTION SITE WITHIN A CITY SHALL BE  PERFORMED  BY  AN
 APPLICABLE  LICENSEE  WITH  EMPLOYEES  UNDER THE LICENSEE'S SUPERVISION,
 PURSUANT TO A WORK PERMIT COVERING SUCH INSTALLATIONS AND CONNECTIONS.
   § 2. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with any  department,  divi-
 sion,  board,  bureau,  commission,  agency,  or public authority of the
 state or any political  subdivision  thereof  deemed  necessary  by  the
 commissioner, is directed to conduct a statewide survey which examines:
   (a)  whether construction of manufactured buildings conflicts with any
 local or state building codes,
   (b) existing obstacles that modular units, component parts, and  manu-
 factured buildings face in complying with local or state building codes,
   (c) the rate at which modular units, component parts, and manufactured
 buildings  are  used  in construction in each county of the state of New
 York,
   (d) the potential hazards that modular  units,  component  parts,  and
 manufactured buildings present when used in non-compliance with local or
 state building codes, and makes recommendations as to how:
   (i) local or state code enforcement officers can ensure modular units,
 component  parts,  and manufactured buildings comply with local or state
 building codes, and
   (ii) how to  mitigate  existing  obstacles  modular  units,  component
 parts,  and manufactured buildings face in complying with local or state
 building codes.
   2. The commissioner shall report the findings of such survey  findings
 to  the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker
 of the assembly no later than April 1st, 2027.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S2225

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

co-Sponsors

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Jessica Ramos

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

co-Sponsors

Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.

Robert Jackson

Mario R. Mattera

James Skoufis

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2225 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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