Bill Text: NY A01490 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to establish guidelines relating to the disqualification of contractors applying to perform stand-by contracts relating to past performance, reasonableness of pricing, acts of negligence and convictions for certain crimes reflecting on honesty, integrity and capability of any contractor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-15 - reported referred to codes [A01490 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01490-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1490
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         guidelines for disqualifying stand-by contractors
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision  4  of  section  3-0309  of  the  environmental
    2  conservation  law  is  amended  by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
    3  follows:
    4    A-1. GUIDELINES FOR DISQUALIFYING CONTRACTORS  WHICH  SHALL  BE  BASED
    5  UPON SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE-B OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND SUCH
    6  OTHER  FACTORS  DEEMED  APPROPRIATE  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PAST
    7  PERFORMANCE ON STATE CONTRACTS, REASONABLENESS OF PRICE CHARGED FOR PAST
    8  PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, ANY NEGLIGENCE OR MALFEASANCE  COMMITTED
    9  DURING  THE PAST PERFORMANCE OF STATE CONTRACTS, AND ANY CONVICTION OF A
   10  CRIME WHICH REFLECTS UPON THE HONESTY,  INTEGRITY  OR  CAPABILITY  OF  A
   11  CONTRACTOR;
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   13  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
   14  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
   15  tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on  or
   16  before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05426-01-5