New York S 4479: Requires the workers' compensation board and the department of labor to publish lists of debarred entities

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S04479 Summary:

BILL NOS04479 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11209

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §141-b, Work Comp L; amd §§220-b, 239-a, 861-e & 862-d, Lab L; add §203-c, Exec L

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Requires the workers' compensation board and the department of labor to publish lists of debarred entities as open data; directs the office of general services to maintain and publish such lists on their website.

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BILL NOS04479 

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02/05/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

05/14/20251ST REPORT CAL.1117

05/15/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/19/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

01/28/20261ST REPORT CAL.194

01/29/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/03/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/19/2026PASSED SENATE

05/19/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/19/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4479

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 5, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, the labor law, and the
 executive law, in relation to requiring the workers' compensation
 board and the department of labor to publish lists of debarred enti-
 ties as open data

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 141-b of the workers' compensation law, as added by
 2 chapter 6 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 141-b. Suspension and debarment. 1. Any person subject to a final
 4 assessment of civil fines or penalties or a stop-work order, or that has
 5 been convicted of a misdemeanor for a violation of sections twenty-six,
 6 fifty-two or one hundred thirty-one of this chapter, and any substan-
 7 tially-owned affiliated entity of such person, shall be ineligible to
 8 submit a bid on or be awarded any public work contract or subcontract
 9 with the state, any municipal corporation or public body for a period of
 10 one year from the final determination or conviction. Any person
 11 convicted of a felony under this article, or a misdemeanor under
 12 sections one hundred twenty-five and one hundred twenty-five-a of this
 13 chapter shall be ineligible to submit a bid on or be awarded any public
 14 work contract or subcontract with the state, any municipal corporation
 15 or public body for a period of five years from such conviction.
 16 2. The board shall maintain and publish a list of persons, contrac-
 17 tors, vendors, or grantees that have been determined to be non-responsi-
 18 ble or ineligible to bid on future contracts or grants pursuant to this
 19 chapter. Such list shall be published in machine readable tabular
 20 format on the board's website. This list shall include the name, vendor
 21 identification number, federal employer identification number, and busi-
 22 ness address of such contractor, vendor, or grantee, the date and the
 23 basis of the determination, and debarment end date, and shall be

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09007-01-5

 S. 4479 2

 1 provided in a manner and for the length of time determined by the office
 2 of general services pursuant to executive order 192 of 2019 or such
 3 successor agency or order. The board shall also transmit such list to
 4 the office of general services, which shall publish such list on its
 5 website and maintain an archive of current and prior non-responsible or
 6 ineligible persons, contractors, vendors, and grantees on data.ny.gov or
 7 such other successor website maintained by, or on behalf of, the state,
 8 as deemed appropriate by the New York state office of information tech-
 9 nology services under executive order 95 of 2013, or any successor agen-
 10 cy or order.
 11 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 220-b of the labor law is amended by
 12 adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
 13 d. The department shall maintain and publish a list of persons,
 14 con