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S.5160
5/6/2009

Provides that any person who maintains his or her current workers' compensation insurance shall, subject to the board's approval, be removed from the debarment list.

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                STATE OF NEW YORK         ________________________________________________________________________                                             5160                                  2009-2010 Regular Sessions                       IN SENATE                                        April 27, 2009                                        ___________           Introduced  by  Sen. MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when           printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor           AN ACT to amend the  workers'  compensation  law,  in  relation  to  the           removal from debarment list             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.  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  Provided,  however,  that  any  person  who maintains his or her current     17  workers' compensation insurance may, subject to the board's approval, be     18  removed from the debarment list.     19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.                EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets                               [ ] is old law to be omitted.                                                                    LBD11579-01-9

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