A00405 Summary:

BILL NO    A00405 

SAME AS    No same as

SPONSOR    John (MS)

COSPNSR    Nolan, Diaz, Millman, Colton

MLTSPNSR   

Amd SS220 & 233, Lab L; amd SS87 & 89, Pub Off L

Provides for public access (public inspection and copying) to certain records
of public entities regarding certain public work and building service employees
(i.e., records or portions thereof pertaining to the employee classifications
of, rate of wages and supplements paid to, and number of hours worked by the
employees of contractors classified as apprentices); provides for redaction of
social security numbers.

A00405 Actions:

BILL NO    A00405 

01/07/2009 referred to labor
01/06/2010 referred to labor

A00405 Votes:

A00405 Memo:

BILL NUMBER:A405

TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the labor law and the public officers
law, in relation to public access to certain records regarding public
work and building service employees

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:  Amends the public officer law to
require the disclosure of records regarding public work projects. Does
not require the disclosure of anyone's address, social security number
or phone number.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:  Amends Sections 87 and 89 of the Public
Officers Law to require the disclosure of names, rates of wages and
supplements, employee classifications, and number of hours worked by
workers employed on government projects covered by the prevailing wage
law who have been designated by their contractors as apprentices.

JUSTIFICATION:  This bill requires the disclosure of taxpayer payments
to people working on a public project receiving government funds. The
State constitution and the NYS Labor Law require the payment of the
prevailing wage to persons employed on these projects. This bill does
NOT require the disclosure of social security numbers, names, addresses
or phone numbers. Somebody working on a government project, whose
employer is required by law to certify his or her rate of pay of taxpay-
er funds, is protected by this legislation. To be classified as an
apprentice on a prevailing wage project that individual must be desig-
nated by their employer as an "apprentice", enrolled in a NYSDOL
approved apprenticeship program and registered with NYSDOL. The regis-
tration list at NYSDOL is FOILable. This bill merely permits verifica-
tion that properly enrolled apprentices have been correctly designated
by their employer on the construction project.

LEGISLATION HISTORY:

A8503 of 2001-02: Vetoed by the Governor
A8486 of 2003-04: Vetoed by the Governor
A6625 of 2005-06: Veto 85 A.4365 of 2007-08: referred to Labor

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  None to the State. These records are required by
law to be kept by public contracting agencies, are provided by public
contractors, and the cost of copying is paid by the entity seeking the
disclosure of the information.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it
shall have become a law.