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Assembly Bill A1490

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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2015-A1490 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3-0309, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2477
2011-2012: A3009
2013-2014: A627
2017-2018: A1025
2019-2020: A3129
2021-2022: A1827
2023-2024: A3587
2025-2026: A7395

2015-A1490 (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.

2015-A1490 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1490

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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;
  S 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 is 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.
                                                           LBD05426-01-5

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