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Senate Bill S8135

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to prevailing wages for service workers

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2009-S8135 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง230, Lab L(as proposed in S7096A/A10257A)

2009-S8135 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prevailing wages for service workers; amends the definition of public agency.

2009-S8135 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8135 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8135

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 10, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sens. AUBERTINE, FOLEY -- 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  prevailing  wages  for
  service workers

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 230 of the labor law,  as  amended
by  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2010, amending the labor law relating to
prevailing wages for service workers, as proposed in  legislative  bills
numbers S. 7096-A and A. 10257-A, is amended to read as follows:
  3. "Public agency" means the state, any of its political subdivisions,
a  public  benefit  corporation,  a public authority, including a public
authority providing public utility services, or  commission  or  special
purpose  district board appointed pursuant to law, a board of education,
[a business improvement district with more than one million dollars  per
year in total revenue,] and any public utility HAVING A SERVICE TERRITO-
RY  WITH  A  POPULATION OF SIX MILLION OR MORE that distributes electric
light or power, or gas or steam services at retail  rates  regulated  by
the  public service commission pursuant to a franchise granted under the
provisions of section sixty-eight or eighty-one of  the  public  service
law, and any substantially-owned affiliated entity of such public utili-
ty.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2010, amending the labor law relating
to prevailing wages for service  workers,  as  proposed  in  legislative
bills numbers S. 7096-A and A. 10257-A, takes effect.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16378-06-0

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