Assembly Bill A3129

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires department of environmental conservation to establish guidelines for disqualification of stand-by contractors

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A3129 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0309, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2477
2011-2012: A3009
2013-2014: A627
2015-2016: A1490
2017-2018: A1025
2021-2022: A1827
2023-2024: A3587

2019-A3129 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of environmental conservation to establish guidelines relating to the disqualification of contractors applying to perform stand-by contracts relating to past performance, reasonableness of pricing, acts of negligence and convictions for certain crimes reflecting on honesty, integrity and capability of any contractor.

2019-A3129 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3129
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   guidelines for disqualifying stand-by contractors
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision  4  of  section  3-0309  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law  is  amended  by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
 follows:
   A-1. GUIDELINES FOR DISQUALIFYING CONTRACTORS  WHICH  SHALL  BE  BASED
 UPON SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE-B OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND SUCH
 OTHER  FACTORS  DEEMED  APPROPRIATE  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PAST
 PERFORMANCE ON STATE CONTRACTS, REASONABLENESS OF PRICE CHARGED FOR PAST
 PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, ANY NEGLIGENCE OR MALFEASANCE  COMMITTED
 DURING  THE PAST PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, AND ANY CONVICTION OF A
 CRIME WHICH REFLECTS UPON THE HONESTY,  INTEGRITY  OR  CAPABILITY  OF  A
 CONTRACTOR;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER  THAT  A  CRIMINAL  CONVICTION  SHALL BE
 CONSIDERED IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH  ARTICLE  TWENTY-THREE-A  OF  THE
 CORRECTION LAW;
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
 before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04652-01-9

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