A00584 Summary:

BILL NOA00584
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03383
 
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Add S103-h, Gen Muni L
 
Allows Westchester county to require bidders for public works, construction or purchase contracts to hire and retain persons residing in certain targeted communities.
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A00584 Actions:

BILL NOA00584
 
01/09/2013referred to local governments
01/08/2014referred to local governments
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A00584 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A00584 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           584
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Local Governments
 
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing West-
          chester county to require bidders for public  works,  construction  or

          purchase  contracts  to  hire  and  retain persons residing in certain
          targeted communities
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 103-h to read as follows:
     3    § 103-h. Contracts for public works in  Westchester  county;  targeted
     4  communities. 1. For the purposes of this section, a "targeted community"
     5  shall mean any city, town, or village within a county where the combined
     6  average  of the unemployment rate and the poverty rate of such community
     7  is greater than the combined  countywide  average  of  unemployment  and
     8  poverty rate by ten percent.

     9    2. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the county of Westchester may
    10  require the lowest responsible bidder for all public works, construction
    11  or  purchase  contracts  to  hire and retain persons residing in certain
    12  targeted communities having the highest  rates  of  unemployment  within
    13  such county.
    14    3. The county may require that:
    15    a.  at  least ten percent of the labor costs of construction contracts
    16  awarded by the county be spent to hire persons residing in the  targeted
    17  communities within that county;
    18    b.  at  least  twenty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of construction
    19  contracts be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted communities,
    20  if the combined average unemployment and poverty  rate  for  a  targeted

    21  community  is  greater  than  twenty  percent of the combined countywide
    22  average of unemployment rate and the poverty rate; and
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00920-01-3

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     1    c. at  least  thirty  percent  of  the  labor  costs  of  construction
     2  contracts  cost be spent to hire persons residing in the targeted commu-
     3  nities if the combined average community unemployment and  poverty  rate
     4  is  greater  than  thirty  percent of the combined countywide average of
     5  unemployment rate and the poverty rate.

     6    4.  The  combined  average unemployment rate and poverty rate shall be
     7  computed annually based on statistics published by the  New  York  state
     8  bureau of labor statistics or similar government agencies for the period
     9  ending December thirty-first of the year preceding the year in which the
    10  contract  is  awarded.  The  combined  average  shall  be the sum of the
    11  preceding year end unemployment rate plus the preceding year end poverty
    12  rate divided by two.
    13    5. The combined average unemployment rate and poverty  rate  shall  be
    14  established annually by resolution or local law of the county.
    15    6.  The  county may require the lowest responsible bidder to establish
    16  apprenticeship and training programs for  workers  residing  within  the

    17  targeted  communities  in  certain  construction  trades  specified in a
    18  resolution or local law passed by such county.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.
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