A8044 • 2025

Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects

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Sponsor: Karines Reyes
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects

Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects Provides that contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies who are assessed penalties for two separate violations of payroll reporting requirements shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract with the state, any municipal corporation or public body for five years; provides that cable television companies shall be subject to the requirement that workers on certain excavation projects be paid not less than a prevailing rate of wage.

What This Bill Does

Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects Provides that contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies who are assessed penalties for two separate violations of payroll reporting requirements shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract with the state, any municipal corporation or public body for five years; provides that cable television companies shall be subject to the requirement that workers on certain excavation projects be paid not less than a prevailing rate of wage.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-12 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO LABOR
2025-04-22 Assembly
REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Relates to penalties for contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies for violations of payroll reporting requirements, and to the payment of workers on certain excavation projects
Provides that contractors and subcontractors to cable television companies who are assessed penalties for two separate violations of payroll reporting requirements shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract with the state, any municipal corporation or public body for five years; provides that cable television companies shall be subject to the requirement that workers on certain excavation projects be paid not less than a prevailing rate of wage.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8044

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 22, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to penalties for  contractors
          and  subcontractors  to  cable  television companies for violations of
          payroll reporting requirements, and  to  the  payment  of  workers  on
          certain excavation projects

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 220-j of the labor law is  amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
     3    F.  IN  ADDITION  TO  THE  PENALTIES  SET  FORTH  IN THIS SUBDIVISION,
     4  CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS TO CABLE TELEVISION COMPANIES, AS DEFINED
     5  IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED  TWELVE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE  LAW,  WHO  ARE
     6  ASSESSED PENALTIES UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION FOR TWO SEPARATE VIOLATIONS OF
     7  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE INELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT A BID ON OR BE AWARDED ANY
     8  PUBLIC WORK CONTRACT OR SUBCONTRACT WITH THE STATE, ANY MUNICIPAL CORPO-
     9  RATION OR PUBLIC BODY FOR  A  PERIOD  OF  FIVE  YEARS  FROM  THE  SECOND
    10  VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION.
    11    §  2.  Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 224-f of the labor law,
    12  as added by chapter 278 of the laws of 2023, is amended and a new subdi-
    13  vision 5 is added to read as follows:
    14    d. "Utility company" shall have the same meaning as subdivision  twen-
    15  ty-three  of  section  two of the public service law; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
    16  THAT FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION "UTILITY COMPANY" SHALL ALSO INCLUDE A
    17  CABLE TELEVISION COMPANY AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  SECTION  TWO
    18  HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW.
    19    5.  ANY  CABLE  TELEVISION  COMPANY,  AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF
    20  SECTION TWO HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW, WHICH  IS  SUBJECT
    21  TO THE JURISDICTION, SUPERVISION AND REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY OR PURSU-
    22  ANT  TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE ELEVEN OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE LAW SHALL
    23  BE SUBJECT TO THE MANDATES OF THIS SECTION, ANY LANGUAGE TO THE CONTRARY
    24  NOTWITHSTANDING.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11394-01-5