S4479-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Apr 6, 2011: REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

S4479-2011 Meetings

S4479-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4479

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the general municipal
law, in relation to establishing the real property tax relief and local
government mandate reform act

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would amend the Wicks law
to increase the threshold from $3 million to $10 million in New York
City, from $1,500,000 to $7,500,000 for Nassau, Suffolk and
Westchester Counties, and from $500,000 to $5 million for all other
counties in the state. This bill would further exempt any separate
bidding Wicks law requirements when the parties have executed a
project labor agreement.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 - Legislative findings and declarations.

Section 2 - Amends �101, subdivision 1 of the General Municipal Law
increasing the thresholds for public works contracts across the State
and adds �101, 1-a which eliminates the need for awarding or entering
into separate contracts for work to be performed when there is an
existing project labor agreement.

Section 3 - Sets the enacting date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Real Property Taxes in New York State are too high, and the burden
they place upon citizens, homeowners and businesses, is making it
difficult for New York State to thrive, prosper and succeed. The only
way to realistically reduce the real property tax burden upon our
citizens, homeowners and businesses, is to place a comprehensive
approach in State law which controls costs and spending for local
governments, and provides significant mandate relief with respect to
their fiscal obligations. Real property tax relief and local
government mandate reform must be achieved by establishing a
comprehensive approach to reduce real property taxes across the
state, the controlling government costs, and providing significant
mandate relief to local governments.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Unknown.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4479-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         4479
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 April 6, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
 

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law law, in relation to establish
 ing the real property tax relief and local government  mandate  reform
 act
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.  Legislative findings and declarations.    The  legislature
 hereby  finds  and determines that real property taxes in New York state
 are too high, and that the burden that they  place  upon  our  citizens,
 homeowners  and businesses, is making it difficult for New York state to
 thrive, prosper and succeed.
 The legislature further finds and determines  that  the  only  way  to
 realistically  reduce  the  real  property tax burden upon our citizens,
 homeowners and businesses, is to place a comprehensive approach in state
 law which  controls  costs  and  spending  for  local  governments,  and
 provides  significant  mandate relief with respect to their fiscal obli
 gations.
 The legislature also finds and determines that the real  property  tax
 relief and local government mandate reform must be achieved by a compre
 hensive  approach  to  reduce  real  property  taxes  across  the state,
 controlling government costs, and the provision of  significant  mandate
 relief to local governments.
 

S  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 101 of the general municipal law, as
 amended by section 1 of part MM of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2008,  is
 amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:

 1.  Except  as otherwise provided in section two hundred twenty-two of
 the labor law, OR SUBDIVISION ONE-A  OF  THIS  SECTION,  every  officer,
 board  or  agency of a political subdivision or of any district therein,
 charged with the duty of preparing specifications or awarding or  enter
 ing  into  contracts  for  the erection, construction, reconstruction or
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10505-01-1
 
       S. 4479                             2
 alteration of buildings, when the entire cost of such public work  shall
 exceed  [three] TEN million dollars in the counties of the Bronx, Kings,
 New York, Queens, and Richmond; [one] SEVEN million five  hundred  thou
 sand  dollars  in  the  counties of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester; and
 five [hundred thousand] MILLION dollars in all other counties within the
 state, shall prepare separate specifications  for  the  following  three
 subdivisions of the work to be performed:

 a. Plumbing and gas fitting;
 b.  Steam heating, hot water heating, ventilating and air conditioning
 apparatus; and
 c. Electric wiring and standard illuminating fixtures.
 1-A. NO OFFICER, BOARD OR AGENCY OF A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR OF  ANY
 DISTRICT  THEREIN,  CHARGED WITH THE DUTY OF PREPARING SPECIFICATIONS OR
 AWARDING OR ENTERING INTO  CONTRACTS  FOR  THE  ERECTION,  CONSTRUCTION,
 RECONSTRUCTION  OR ALTERATION OF BUILDINGS, SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PREPARE
 SEPARATE SPECIFICATIONS FOR PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING; STEAM HEATING, HOT
 WATER HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS; AND  ELECTRIC
 WIRING  AND STANDARD ILLUMINATING FIXTURES, OF THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED,
 IF THERE IS IN PLACE, PRIOR TO THE AWARDING OR ENTERING  INTO  CONTRACTS
 FOR  THE  ERECTION, CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION OR ALTERATION OF BUILD
 INGS, A PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT.
 

S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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