Requires the payment of prevailing wages on construction projects involving the state university of New York, the dormitory authority or the state university construction fund and any third party. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Makes contractors ineligible to bid for a public work contract if prevailing rate wages and supplements due from all prior public work contracts remain unpaid. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Relates to advertisements for bids for certain public contracts. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Requires public authorities and public benefit corporations to negotiate with professional firms providing architectural or engineering services in order from the most qualified to the least qualified with regard to the provision of services to the authority or corporation. / Sponsor: DILAN Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Requires general purpose lights used in all public buildings to meet certain energy efficiency standards; provides that such standards increase over time. / Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Increases the powers and duties of the division of homeland security and emergency services by giving it the power to decide if the sale, lease or operation of any critical infrastructure owned by the state or public authority or an electric generating facility would threaten public security; establishes a critical infrastructure advisory council. / Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Enacts the "New York state healthy and green procurement act". / Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Authorizes the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to establish a resident curator program for the rehabilitation of state park buildings. / Sponsor: SERRANO Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use or open a street is required to be issued. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Provides for a reasonable amount of construction contract sum to be deposited in a separate interest bearing escrow account with a third party escrow agent; provides further that the owner shall be subject to the payment of interest, in addition to the escrow interest, at the rate of one percent per month and the contractor or subcontractor shall be subject to payment of interest on the amount of retainage it holds at the rate of one percent per month. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Provides that cities with a population of one million or more shall require qualified manholes to contain locking devices. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Relates to requirements for selecting the lowest responsible bidder for certain public works contracts; requires the submission of a questionnaire to the contracting agency and the comptroller. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Provides a time schedule that the fiscal officer must follow when investigating and adjudicating complaints of prevailing wage violations. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes unless it excludes disputes involving sexual assault. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Extends provisions relating to mortgage pool insurance. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Requires the division of housing and community renewal to publish on its website a database of building-wide major capital improvements installed by landlords in every city of more than one million inhabitants. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Relates to providing notification of prevailing wage violation allegations. / Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Establishes the New York state smart growth interagency task force to provide municipalities with smart growth planning grants. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Creates a fifteen member sustainable development task force to study the feasibility of adopting a goal oriented and performance based regulatory system to achieve the goal of sustainable development in the state; sets forth certain goals and makes provision for organization of the task force. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT

Requires a study and report on methods to modernize information collection, retention and dissemination in the state. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT