Assembly Bill A5935

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5935

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  state  finance  law,  in relation to purchasing
  services and commodities

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

  Section  1.  Paragraph  g of subdivision 4 of section 163 of the state
finance law, as added by chapter 10 of the laws of 2006, is  amended  to
read as follows:
  g.  All  state  agencies shall require all contractors, including sub-
contractors, that provide services for  state  purposes  pursuant  to  a
contract,  to  submit  an annual employment report for each contract for
services that includes for each employment category within the  contract
the number of employees employed to provide services under the contract,
the  number of hours they work [and], their total compensation under the
contract AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN  EACH  EMPLOY-
MENT CATEGORY.  Employment reports shall be submitted to the agency that
awarded the contract, the department of civil service and the department
of  audit  and  control and shall be available for public inspection and
copying pursuant to section eighty-seven  of  the  public  officers  law
provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to the public officers
law,  the  agency  making the disclosure shall redact the name or social
security number of any individual employee  that  is  included  in  such
document.
  S 2.  Paragraphs c and f of subdivision 14 of section 163 of the state
finance law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, are amended to
read as follows:
  c. The report required pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph a of
this subdivision shall include:
  (i)  information required to be reported by the contractor annually by
the employment category  within  the  contract,  including  the  planned

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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number  of employees to provide services under the contract, the planned
number of hours to be worked under the contract, [and] the total compen-
sation planned under the contract, AND THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE  PAID  TO
EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY; and
  (ii)  information  required  to be reported by the contractor annually
pursuant to paragraph g of subdivision four  of  this  section,  specif-
ically,  the  actual  number of employees, by employment category within
the contract, employed to  provide  services  under  the  contract,  the
number of hours worked [and], TOTAL COMPENSATION UNDER THE CONTRACT, AND
THE AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGE PAID TO EMPLOYEES IN EACH EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY.
  f.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
  S 3. Paragraph c of subdivision 15 of section 163 of the state finance
law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read  as
follows:
  c.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
included  in  such document.   ALL REPORTS REQUIRED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH
SHALL BE AVAILABLE IN A SEARCHABLE PUBLIC DATABASE ON THE PUBLIC WEBSITE
OF THE STATE PROCUREMENT COUNCIL.
  S 4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however,  that
the  amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by sections
one, two and three of this act shall  not  affect  the  repeal  of  such
section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.