Assembly Bill A2730A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements

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2025-A2730 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4881
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §224-d, Lab L

2025-A2730 - Summary

Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements; requires thermal energy networks to require contractors and subcontractors to use pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.

2025-A2730 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2730
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring contractors  and
   subcontractors  performing  construction  work  for  covered renewable
   energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 8 of section 224-d of the labor law, as added
 by chapter 375 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   8. Any  [thermal  energy  network]  COVERED  RENEWABLE  ENERGY  SYSTEM
 covered by this section shall require all contractors and subcontractors
 performing  construction  work  to  use  apprenticeship  agreements,  as
 defined by article twenty-three of this chapter, with pre-apprenticeship
 direct entry providers registered with the department.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05508-01-5

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2025-A2730A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4881
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §224-d, Lab L

2025-A2730A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires contractors and subcontractors performing construction work for covered renewable energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements; requires thermal energy networks to require contractors and subcontractors to use pre-apprenticeship direct entry providers registered with the department of labor.

2025-A2730A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2730--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT, TAPIA, GLICK, LEVENBERG, STERN, CONRAD,
   DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC, SLATER, LUNSFORD, REYES, WOERNER, KASSAY --  read
   once  and  referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged,
   bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
   committee

 AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring contractors and
   subcontractors performing  construction  work  for  covered  renewable
   energy systems to use apprenticeship agreements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 224-d of the labor law,  as  added
 by chapter 375 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   8.  [Any] A COVERED RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM SHALL REQUIRE ALL CONTRAC-
 TORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS PERFORMING CONSTRUCTION WORK TO USE  APPRENTICE-
 SHIP AGREEMENTS, AS DEFINED BY ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER, AND
 ANY  thermal  energy  network covered by this section shall ADDITIONALLY
 require  [all]   SUCH   contractors   and   subcontractors   [performing
 construction  work]  to  use  [apprenticeship  agreements, as defined by
 article twenty-three of this chapter,  with]  pre-apprenticeship  direct
 entry providers registered with the department.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05508-02-5

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