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This bill requires state agencies to help contractors identify and hire minority group members and women for apprenticeships.
Why it matters
Strengthens collaboration between state agencies. The bill formally requires the Division of Minority and Women's Business Development and the Department of Labor to work together, ensuring that contractors receive coordinated assistance in finding qualified minority and women apprentices.
Improves access to apprenticeship opportunities. By helping contractors identify minority group members and women already participating in apprenticeship programs, this measure could increase the hiring of underrepresented groups and provide them with concrete career advancement pathways.
Targets public contract diversity compliance. The amendment supports existing state efforts to diversify workforces on state contracts, making it easier for contractors to meet minority and women participation goals and potentially reducing legal or administrative barriers to compliance.
May enhance workforce equity in skilled trades. By facilitating connections between contractors and diverse apprentices, the bill aims to address longstanding disparities in access to skilled trades and union jobs, which often lead to higher wages and stable employment.
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Promote Diverse Hiring in Construction
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Brian Benjamin
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2430
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the labor law, in relation to assisting contractors to identify minority group members and women for hiring opportunities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraphs (h) and (i) of subdivision 3 of section 311 of the executive law, paragraph (h) as amended and paragraph (i) as added by section 1 of part BB of chapter 59 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
(h) notwithstanding the provisions of section two hundred ninety-six of this chapter, to file a complaint pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred ninety-seven of this chapter where the director has knowledge that a contractor may have violated the provisions of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subdivision one of section two hundred ninetysix of this chapter where such violation is unrelated, separate or distinct from the state contract as expressed by its terms; [and]
(i) to streamline the state certification process to accept federal and municipal corporation certifications; and
(j) to work in conjunction with the industrial commissioner pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision one of section eight hundred eleven of the labor law to assist contractors in identifying minority group members and women who are participating in apprenticeship agreements under article twenty-three of the labor law.
§ 2. Paragraphs (j) and (k) of subdivision 1 of section 811 of the labor law, as relettered by chapter 884 of the laws of 1965, are relettered paragraphs (k) and (l) and a new paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:
(j) to cooperate with the director of the division of minority and women's business development pursuant to paragraph (j) of subdivision
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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three of section three hundred eleven of the executive law to assist contractors in locating minority group members and women who are participating in apprenticeships agreements;
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however that the amendments to article 15-A of the executive law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration of such article and shall be deemed to expire therewith. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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