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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. PICHARDO, REYES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee 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.
   § 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.
   § 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.
   § 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.