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S748Senate2011-2012 Session

Relates to asbestos project notification and associated fee

Sponsor Catharine YoungSD-57Affects Economy
Status
In Assembly Committee
Labor
Impact
Pending
Passage
Pending

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Catharine Young

Senator · Senate District 57

Chair, Housing, Construction And Community Development

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History

  1. Referred to labor
  2. Delivered to assembly
  3. Passed senateVote 50–0
  4. Advanced to third reading
  5. 2nd report cal.
  6. 1st report cal.515
  7. Reported and committed to finance
  8. Referred to labor
  9. Returned to senate
  10. Died in assembly
  11. Referred to labor
  12. Delivered to assembly
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  1. Passed senateVote 60–0
  2. Advanced to third reading
  3. 2nd report cal.
  4. 1st report cal.578
  5. Reported and committed to finance
  6. Referred to labor

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Sponsor's memo

BILL NUMBER:S748

Title of bill

An act to amend the labor law, in relation to asbestos project notification fees

Purpose

To amend Section 904 of the Labor Law with regard to asbes- tos project notification fees for owner occupied one or two family residential structures.

Summary of provisions

This bill would amend Section 904 of the Labor Law to provide that the asbestos notification fee for owner occupied one or two family residential structures shall be no more than five hundred dollars.

Justification

Municipalities seek to improve neighborhoods through renovations and by procuring grant program funding. Unfortunately, in many distressed neighborhoods, the asbestos removal fees are so cost-prohibitive, that it has had a devastating effect on the local government's ability to address building code enforcement and pursue economic development opportunities, by more than doubling the cost of demolition activities. Demolition and redevelopment projects benefit citizens and strengthen neighborhoods. Currently, a very small percentage of asbestos project notifications are received from projects involving owner occupied one or two family structures. It is believed that so few of these notifications are received because the current fee structure is cost prohibitive, which results in homeowners either doing the abatement project illegally themselves or not doing the project at all. If home-owners are charged a fee of no more than five hundred dollars for the project notification it will result in improved compliance and an increase in the number of homeowner asbestos project notifications received by the Department, since it would become more economically feasible to comply with the law.

Legislative history

2009-2010: S.4650 Referred to Labor 2007-2008: S.4903/A.3627 Passed Senate

Fiscal implications

There may be an increase in revenue from homeowner project notification fees since it is expected that the Department would receive a greater volume of these types of notifications.

Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately.

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