Bill Text: NY A06118 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires specification of the average weekly paid wage to employees in contractors' annual employment reports, and requires such reports to be made available in a searchable public database on the public website of the state procurement council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-24 - advanced to third reading cal.948 [A06118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A06118-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6118
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 23, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, DAVILA, BLAKE -- 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:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  g of subdivision 4 of section 163 of the state
     2  finance law, as added by chapter 10 of the laws of 2006, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    g.  All  state  agencies shall require all contractors, including sub-
     5  contractors, that provide services for  state  purposes  pursuant  to  a
     6  contract,  to  submit  an annual employment report for each contract for
     7  services that includes for each employment category within the  contract
     8  the number of employees employed to provide services under the contract,
     9  the  number of hours they work [and], their total compensation under the
    10  contract and the average weekly wage paid to employees in  each  employ-
    11  ment category.  Employment reports shall be submitted to the agency that
    12  awarded the contract, the department of civil service and the department
    13  of  audit  and  control and shall be available for public inspection and
    14  copying pursuant to section eighty-seven  of  the  public  officers  law
    15  provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to the public officers
    16  law,  the  agency  making the disclosure shall redact the name or social
    17  security number of any individual employee  that  is  included  in  such
    18  document.
    19    § 2.  Paragraphs c and f of subdivision 14 of section 163 of the state
    20  finance law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, are amended to
    21  read as follows:
    22    c. The report required pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph a of
    23  this subdivision shall include:
    24    (i)  information required to be reported by the contractor annually by
    25  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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        A. 6118                             2
     1  number  of employees to provide services under the contract, the planned
     2  number of hours to be worked under the contract, [and] the total compen-
     3  sation planned under the contract, and the average weekly wage  paid  to
     4  employees in each employment category; and
     5    (ii)  information  required  to be reported by the contractor annually
     6  pursuant to paragraph g of subdivision four  of  this  section,  specif-
     7  ically,  the  actual  number of employees, by employment category within
     8  the contract, employed to  provide  services  under  the  contract,  the
     9  number of hours worked [and], total compensation under the contract, and
    10  the average weekly wage paid to employees in each employment category.
    11    f.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
    12  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
    13  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
    14  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
    15  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
    16  included  in  such document.   All reports required under this paragraph
    17  shall be available in a searchable public database on the public website
    18  of the state procurement council.
    19    § 3. Paragraph c of subdivision 15 of section 163 of the state finance
    20  law, as added by chapter 317 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read  as
    21  follows:
    22    c.  All reports required under this subdivision shall be available for
    23  public inspection and copying pursuant to section  eighty-seven  of  the
    24  public officers law provided that in disclosing such reports pursuant to
    25  the  public  officers law, the agency making the disclosure shall redact
    26  the name or social security number of any individual  employee  that  is
    27  included  in  such document.   All reports required under this paragraph
    28  shall be available in a searchable public database on the public website
    29  of the state procurement council.
    30    § 4.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however,  that
    31  the  amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by sections
    32  one, two and three of this act shall  not  affect  the  repeal  of  such
    33  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.