Senate Bill S5231

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Expands prevailing wage legislation to charter schools and requires them to abide by laws pertaining to advertising for bids, letting of contracts, conspiracies

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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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2009-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7108
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §220, Lab L; amd §§2853 & 2854, Ed L

2009-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands prevailing wage legislation to charter schools and requires them to abide by laws pertaining to advertising for bids, letting of contracts, and criminal conspiracies in municipal contracting; expands scope of prevailing wage provisions to leases, grants, bonds, covenants, debt agreements, or permits; requires representation in negotiating units for all (not only instructional) employees if criteria for representation are met.

2009-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5231 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5231

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 hours, wages, and  supple-
  ments  for  work on public work projects including charter schools and
  to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  contracts  for  charter
  school   construction  and  collective  bargaining  representation  of
  employees in certain charter schools

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 220 of the labor law, as amended
by chapter 678 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  2. Each contract, LEASE, GRANT,  BOND,  COVENANT,  DEBT  AGREEMENT  OR
PERMIT to which the state or a public benefit corporation or a municipal
corporation  or  a  commission appointed pursuant to law OR AN EDUCATION
CORPORATION ORGANIZED TO OPERATE A CHARTER SCHOOL is a  party,  and  any
contract  for  public work entered into by a third party acting in place
of, on behalf of and for the benefit of such public entity  pursuant  to
any  lease,  permit  or other agreement between such third party and the
public entity, and which may involve the employment of laborers, workers
or mechanics shall contain a stipulation  that  no  laborer,  worker  or
mechanic  in the employ of the contractor, subcontractor or other person
doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work  contemplated
by  the  contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight
hours in any one calendar day or more than five days  in  any  one  week
except  in  cases  of  extraordinary  emergency including fire, flood or
danger to life or property. No such person shall  be  so  employed  more
than  eight  hours  in  any  day  or more than five days in any one week
except in such emergency. Extraordinary emergency within the meaning  of
this  section  shall be deemed to include situations in which sufficient
laborers, workers and mechanics cannot be employed to  carry  on  public
work  expeditiously  as a result of such restrictions upon the number of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10448-01-9
              

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