Bill Text: NY A06228 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to qualified installers trained under the apprenticeship training program; prohibits NYSERDA from requiring additional certifications for specified work where an individual is trained under article 23 of the labor law.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-08 - substituted by s4004a [A06228 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6228
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 18, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to qualified
         installers under the state apprenticeship training program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
    2  section 1884 to read as follows:
    3    S 1884. QUALIFIED INSTALLERS. 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE,  REGU-
    4  LATION  OR  POLICY  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  WITH RESPECT TO ANY SOLICITATION
    5  OFFERED BY THE AUTHORITY, ANY INDIVIDUAL ACCREDITED THROUGH  AN  APPREN-
    6  TICESHIP PROGRAM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW SHALL
    7  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE  A QUALIFIED INSTALLER FOR ANY SUCH SOLICITATION THAT
    8  FALLS SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE TRADE OR AREA FOR WHICH  SUCH  INDIVIDUAL
    9  HAS COMPLETED AN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE
   10  OF THE LABOR LAW.
   11    2.  THE  AUTHORITY  IS PROHIBITED FROM REQUIRING ADDITIONAL COURSES OR
   12  CERTIFICATIONS FOR SUCH QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS, PROVIDED  THAT  THE  WORK
   13  THAT  IS  BEING  DONE  FALLS  SUBSTANTIALLY WITHIN THE TRADE OR AREA FOR
   14  WHICH SUCH INDIVIDUAL HAS COMPLETED AN APPRENTICESHIP  PROGRAM  PURSUANT
   15  TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW.
   16    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect immediately and shall be applied
   17  retroactively to any solicitation of the New York state energy  research
   18  and development authority where work has not already commenced.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09594-02-3