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A05633 Summary:

BILL NOA05633
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05344
 
SPONSORHunter
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §756, Gen Bus L
 
Removes residential dwelling units that must be affordable to residents at a specific income level from the definition of "construction contracts" for the purposes of certain provisions of the General Business Law.
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A05633 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5633
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 18, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
 
        AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the definition
          of construction contracts
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 756 of the general business law,
     2  as amended by chapter 417 of the laws of 2009, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  "Construction  contract" means a written or oral agreement for the
     5  construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance, moving or demoli-
     6  tion of any building, structure or improvement, or relating to the exca-
     7  vation of or other development or improvement to  land,  and  where  the
     8  aggregate   cost  of  the  construction  project  including  all  labor,
     9  services, materials and equipment to be furnished, equals or exceeds one
    10  hundred fifty thousand dollars. For  the  purposes  of  this  article  a
    11  construction  contract  shall  not  include  any  such contract made and
    12  awarded by the state, any public department, any public  benefit  corpo-
    13  ration,  any  public  corporation  or  official  thereof, or a municipal
    14  corporation or official thereof for construction, reconstruction, alter-
    15  ation, repair, maintenance, moving or demolition  of  any  public  works
    16  project  nor  any  contract  with a contractor or subcontractor which is
    17  part of such project; or any such contract the purpose of which  is  the
    18  construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, moving or
    19  demolition  of an individual one, two or three family residential dwell-
    20  ing or a residential tract development of one hundred or less one or two
    21  family dwellings, or any  residential  construction  project  where  the
    22  aggregate size of such project is four thousand five hundred square feet
    23  or  less,  or  any residential project [of fewer than seventy-five units
    24  which receives financial assistance from  the  federal  government,  the
    25  state  or  a municipal entity designed for households earning an average

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09474-01-5

        A. 5633                             2

     1  of one hundred twenty-five percent of the housing and urban  development
     2  agency  area  median  income]  that includes or will include residential
     3  dwelling units that must be affordable to residents at a specific income
     4  level  pursuant  to  a  statute,  regulation, restrictive declaration or
     5  pursuant to a regulatory agreement  with  a  federal,  state,  or  local
     6  government entity.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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