Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements; requires thermal energy networks to require contractors and subcontractors to use pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4881--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SCARCELLA-SPANTON, FERNANDEZ, C. RYAN -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring contractors and
subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable
energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 224-d of the labor law, as added
2 by chapter 375 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 8. [Any] A covered renewable energy system shall require all contrac-
4 tors and subcontractors performing construction work to use apprentice-
5 ship agreements, as defined by article twenty-three of this chapter, and
6 any thermal energy network covered by this section shall additionally
7 require [all] such contractors and subcontractors [performing
8 construction work] to use [apprenticeship agreements, as defined by
9 article twenty-three of this chapter, with] pre-apprenticeship direct
10 entry providers registered with the department.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05508-03-5
