Bill Text: NY A00436 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases moneys accumulated in the public work enforcement fund by increasing the assessment on certain public works contracts; provides moneys in the public works enforcement fund shall be used for training and labor costs to ensure that staffing levels are maintained at an appropriate level; appropriates $2,600,000 therefor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to labor [A00436 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-A00436-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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436
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. JOHN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend chapter 511 of the laws of 1995, relating to establish-
ing a public work enforcement fund and making an appropriation there-
for, in relation to moneys accumulated in the public work enforcement
fund
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Sections 1 and 2 of chapter 511 of the laws of 1995, relat-
2 ing to establishing a public work enforcement fund and making an appro-
3 priation therefor, as amended by chapter 407 of the laws of 2005, are
4 amended to read as follows:
5 Section 1. The state comptroller shall establish a public work
6 enforcement fund. Each state agency or public benefit corporation enter-
7 ing into a contract for any construction, reconstruction, renovation,
8 repair, maintenance or other improvement, as defined in subdivision 2 of
9 section 220 of the labor law, shall make a transfer of [0.10] 0.12 of
10 one percent of the total cost of the contract to such fund. All trans-
11 fers shall be made available to the labor department for labor law
12 enforcement. All moneys transferred to and accumulated in the public
13 work enforcement fund shall be dedicated to enforcement of labor law
14 articles 8 and 9 and all moneys appropriated from such fund shall be
15 used for such purpose. Provided further that such dedicated funds shall
16 be used for training, labor and related costs for investigators, hearing
17 officers and administrative staff to ensure that staffing levels for
18 such personnel are maintained at an appropriate level.
19 S 2. The sum of two million [four] SIX hundred thousand dollars
20 [($2,400,000)] ($2,600,000), or so much thereof as may be accumulated,
21 is hereby appropriated to the department of labor from any moneys cred-
22 ited to the public work enforcement fund created pursuant to section one
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of this act for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act.
2 Such sum shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the state comp-
3 troller on vouchers certified or approved by the commissioner of labor,
4 or his duly designated representative in the manner provided by law. No
5 expenditure shall be made from this appropriation until a certificate of
6 approval of availability shall have been issued by the director of the
7 budget and filed with the state comptroller and a copy filed with the
8 chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways
9 and means committee. Such certificate may be amended from time to time
10 by the director of the budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be
11 filed with the state comptroller, the chair of the senate finance
12 committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee.
13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
