S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4823
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 3, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, GRAF, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, CROUCH,
GIGLIO, BUTLER, BRABENEC, ERRIGO, D'URSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. LOPEZ, LUPINACCI, B. MILLER, OAKS -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to prompt payment to
counties from the state
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 179-f of the state finance law, as
amended by chapter 332 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as
follows:
1. Each state agency which is required to make a payment from state
funds pursuant to a contract and which does not make such contract
payment by the required payment date shall make an interest payment to
the contractor OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT in accordance with this article, OR
OTHER PROVISIONS OF LAW, on the amount of the contract payment which is
due, unless failure to make such contract payment is the result of a
lien, attachment, or other legal process against the money due said
contractor OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT, or unless the amount of the interest
payment as computed in accordance with the provisions of section one
hundred seventy-nine-g of this article is less than ten dollars. A pro
rata share of such interest shall be paid by the contractor or subcon-
tractor, as the case may be, to subcontractors and materialmen in a
proportion equal to the percentage of their pro rata share of the
contract payment. Such pro rata share of interest shall be due to such
subcontractors and materialmen only for those payments which are not
paid to such subcontractors and materialmen prior to the date upon which
interest begins to accrue between the state agency and the contractor.
Such pro rata share of interest shall be computed daily until such
payments are made to the subcontractors and materialmen.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06836-01-7