Provides that contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies who are assessed penalties for two separate violations of payroll reporting requirements shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract with the state, any municipal corporation or public body for five years; provides that cable television companies shall be subject to the requirement that workers on certain excavation projects be paid not less than a prevailing rate of wage.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8044
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to penalties for contractors
and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of
payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on
certain excavation projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 220-j of the labor law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
3 f. In addition to the penalties set forth in this subdivision,
4 contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies, as defined
5 in section two hundred twelve of the public service law, who are
6 assessed penalties under this subdivision for two separate violations of
7 this section shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any
8 public work contract or subcontract with the state, any municipal corpo-
9 ration or public body for a period of five years from the second
10 violation of this section.
11 § 2. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 224-f of the labor law,
12 as added by chapter 278 of the laws of 2023, is amended and a new subdi-
13 vision 5 is added to read as follows:
14 d. "Utility company" shall have the same meaning as subdivision twen-
15 ty-three of section two of the public service law; provided, however,
16 that for purposes of this section "utility company" shall also include a
17 cable television company as defined by subdivision one of section two
18 hundred twelve of the public service law.
19 5. Any cable television company, as defined by subdivision one of
20 section two hundred twelve of the public service law, which is subject
21 to the jurisdiction, supervision and regulations prescribed by or pursu-
22 ant to the provisions of article eleven of the public service law shall
23 be subject to the mandates of this section, any language to the contrary
24 notwithstanding.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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