S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   2684
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to including nuclear
   power reactors as part of  the  definition  of  "electric  plant";  to
   provide  for  employees  of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant to be
   paid certain wages in the event such plant  is  sold,  transferred  or
   leased;  and  to  repeal  certain  provisions of the labor law and the
   public service law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
 any  corporation,  firm, company, partnership, limited liability company
 or association with a contract to  purchase  the  Indian  Point  Nuclear
 Power Plant, or involved in any transfer or lease, as well as any decom-
 missioning  activities,  by  the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant of its
 franchise, works or system or any  part  of  such  franchise,  works  or
 system  shall  provide  that employees of the Indian Point Nuclear Power
 Plant shall be paid a wage of not less than the prevailing wage  in  the
 locality  where  the  Indian  Point  Nuclear Power Plant is located. The
 provisions of this act shall be enforced in  a  manner  consistent  with
 article  8 of the labor law in the case of construction work, or article
 9 of the labor law in the case of building service work.
   Nothing in this act shall be deemed to  diminish  the  rights,  privi-
 leges, or remedies of any current or former employee under any other law
 or regulation or under any collective bargaining agreement or employment
 contract.
   §  2. Any transferee or purchaser corporation, firm, company, partner-
 ship, limited liability company, or association engaged in the transfer,
 lease or sale of any franchise, works or system of a nuclear power plant
 within sixty miles of a city with a population of one  million  or  more
 shall  be bound by any collective bargaining agreement applicable to the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 current workforce as of the effective date of this act pursuant  to  the
 terms of such agreement.
   § 3. Section 220-i of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the laws
 of  2020,  amending the labor law and the public service law relating to
 establishing requirements for the transfer, sale, lease and  any  decom-
 missioning  activities  of  the  Indian  Point  Nuclear  Power Plant, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 and A. 10338, is REPEALED.
   § 4. Section 231-a of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the laws
 of 2020, amending the labor law and the public service law  relating  to
 establishing  requirements  for the transfer, sale, lease and any decom-
 missioning activities of  the  Indian  Point  Nuclear  Power  Plant,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846 and A. 10338, is REPEALED.
   §  5.  Subdivision 8 of section 70 of the public service law, as added
 by a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law and the  public
 service  law  relating  to  establishing  requirements for the transfer,
 sale, lease and any  decommissioning  activities  of  the  Indian  Point
 Nuclear  Power  Plant,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7846
 and A. 10338, is REPEALED.
   § 6. Subdivision 12 of section 2 of the public service law is  amended
 to read as follows:
   12. The term "electric plant," when used in this chapter, includes all
 real  estate, fixtures and personal property operated, owned, used or to
 be used for or in connection with or to facilitate the generation, tran-
 smission, distribution, sale or furnishing  of  electricity  for  light,
 heat  or  power;  and  any  conduits, ducts or other devices, materials,
 apparatus or property for containing,  holding  or  carrying  conductors
 used  or  to be used for the transmission of electricity for light, heat
 or power, AND ALSO INCLUDES RETIRED NUCLEAR  POWER  REACTORS  AND  THEIR
 ASSOCIATED  SYSTEMS, STRUCTURES, FUEL AND WASTE STORAGE FACILITIES, REAL
 ESTATE, FIXTURES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.
   § 7. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the labor law and the
 public service law relating to establishing requirements for the  trans-
 fer,  sale, lease and any decommissioning activities of the Indian Point
 Nuclear Power Plant, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  7846
 and A. 10338, takes effect, provided, however, that sections two and six
 of this act shall take effect immediately.