Assembly Bill A5550

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Eliminates the delivery of fossil fuel from those building services for which municipalities are required to pay prevailing wage

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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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2019-A5550 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §230, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7601
2011-2012: A6134
2013-2014: A4760
2015-2016: A1649
2017-2018: A4104
2021-2022: A3923

2019-A5550 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the delivery of fossil fuel from those building services for which municipalities are required to pay minimum wage.

2019-A5550 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5550
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SALKA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eliminating  the  delivery
   of  fossil  fuel from those building services for which municipalities
   are required to pay prevailing wage
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 230 of the labor law, as amended
 by chapter 542 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   1. "Building service employee" or "employee" means any person perform-
 ing work in connection with the  care  or  maintenance  of  an  existing
 building,  or  in connection with the transportation of office furniture
 or equipment to or from such building, [or in connection with the trans-
 portation and delivery of fossil fuel to such building,] for a  contrac-
 tor  under  a  contract  with  a public agency which is in excess of one
 thousand five hundred dollars and the principal purpose of which  is  to
 furnish services through the use of building service employees.
   "Building  service employee" or "employee" includes, but is not limit-
 ed, to, watchman, guard, doorman, building  cleaner,  porter,  handyman,
 janitor,  gardener, groundskeeper, stationary fireman, elevator operator
 and starter, window cleaner, and occupations relating to the  collection
 of  garbage or refuse, and to the transportation of office furniture and
 equipment, [and to the transportation and delivery of fossil  fuel]  but
 does  not  include clerical, sales, professional, technician and related
 occupations.
   "Building service employee" or "employee" also does  not  include  any
 employee  to whom the provisions of articles eight and [eight-a] EIGHT-A
 of this chapter are applicable.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09408-01-9

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