STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4577 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Devel- opment and Small Business AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to local hiring for certain projects 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 1834-a to read as follows: 3 § 1834-a. Local hiring. Any entity receiving state funding pursuant to 4 a contractual agreement with the state or pursuant to any chapter of 5 law, shall give preference in hiring employees for the completion of a 6 project or projects with an anticipated cost exceeding one million 7 dollars and undertaken pursuant to such contractual agreement or chapter 8 of law who shall reside within a ten mile radius of the location of such 9 project or projects. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09030-01-3