Requires construction contractors hired to perform work on certain school buildings and facilities to acquire a transportation worker identification credential card issued by the Transportation Security Administration prior to beginning work on such buildings and facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5561--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, BROOKS, GAUGHRAN, KAMINSKY, THOMAS -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Children and Families -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the credentials of
construction contractors hired to perform work on certain school
facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 408-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 408-c. Construction of school buildings and facilities; construction
4 contractor credentials. Any construction contractor hired to erect,
5 repair, enlarge or remodel any public or private school or educational
6 facility shall employ individuals who have acquired a transportation
7 worker identification credential card issued by the Transportation Secu-
8 rity Administration to work on such construction. For the purposes of
9 this section "construction contractor" shall mean any individual or
10 entity seeking permission either through a bid or otherwise to perform
11 construction and/or maintenance work on buildings and facilities occu-
12 pied at any point by students of a school district, charter school,
13 board of cooperative educational services, or nonpublic school.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07121-03-1
