Makes contractors ineligible to bid for a public work contract if prevailing rate wages and supplements due from all prior public work contracts remain unpaid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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593
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to making contractors ineli-
gible to bid for a public work contract if prevailing rate wages and
supplements due from a prior public work contract remain unpaid
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 220-b of the labor
2 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 1-a to read as follows:
3 (1-a) When a final determination has been rendered against a contrac-
4 tor, subcontractor, successor, or any substantially-owned affiliated
5 entity of the contractor or subcontractor, any of the partners if the
6 contractor or subcontractor is a partnership, any officer of the
7 contractor or subcontractor who knowingly participated in the violation
8 of this article, any of the shareholders who own or control at least ten
9 per centum of the outstanding stock of the contractor or subcontractor
10 or any successor has wilfully failed to pay the prevailing rate of wages
11 or to provide supplements in accordance with this article, whether such
12 failures were concurrent or consecutive, such contractor, subcontractor,
13 successor, or any substantially-owned affiliated entity of the contrac-
14 tor or subcontractor, any of the partners if the contractor or subcon-
15 tractor is a partnership or any of the shareholders who own or control
16 at least ten per centum of the outstanding stock of the contractor or
17 subcontractor, any officer of the contractor or subcontractor who know-
18 ingly participated in the violation of this article shall be ineligible
19 to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract or subcontract
20 with the state, any municipal corporation or public body unless and
21 until all prevailing rates of wages and supplements due from all prior
22 public work contracts have been paid.
23 § 2. 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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