File #: Int 1207-2025    Version: Name: Allowing for practical experience gained separately but concurrently with an apprenticeship to count towards the supervised practical experience time requirement for the granting of high-pressure boiler operating engineer licenses.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 3/12/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing for practical experience gained separately but concurrently with an apprenticeship to count towards the supervised practical experience time requirement for the granting of high-pressure boiler operating engineer licenses
Sponsors: Carmen N. De La Rosa, Shekar Krishnan, Joann Ariola , Kristy Marmorato, Julie Menin, Vickie Paladino, Lincoln Restler, Julie Won, Erik D. Bottcher, Linda Lee, Shaun Abreu, Lynn C. Schulman, Sandra Ung, Rita C. Joseph, Sandy Nurse, Susan Zhuang, Justin L. Brannan, Keith Powers , Gale A. Brewer, Chi A. Ossé, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Shahana K. Hanif, Francisco P. Moya, Crystal Hudson, James F. Gennaro, Robert F. Holden, Darlene Mealy, Amanda Farías, Eric Dinowitz, Oswald Feliz, Kamillah Hanks, Farah N. Louis, Christopher Marte, Chris Banks, Tiffany Cabán, Mercedes Narcisse, David M. Carr, Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 38
Summary: This bill would allow applicants for a high pressure boiler engineer license to concurrently complete the 2-year apprenticeship program and 3-year practical experience requirement within the same 3-year timeframe.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1207-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1207, 3. Int. No. 1207, 4. March 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-12-25, 6. Committee Report 4/29/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 4/29/25, 8. Proposed Int. No. 1207-A - 5/21/25
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
4/29/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/12/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Proposed Int. No. 1207-A

 

By Council Members De La Rosa, Krishnan, Ariola, Marmorato, Menin, Paladino, Restler, Won, Bottcher, Lee, Abreu, Schulman, Ung, Joseph, Nurse, Zhuang, Brannan, Powers, Brewer, Ossé, Brooks-Powers, Hanif, Moya, Hudson, Gennaro, Holden, Mealy, Farias, Dinowitz, Feliz, Hanks, Louis, Marte, Banks, Cabán, Narcisse, Carr and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to allowing for practical experience gained separately but concurrently with an apprenticeship to count towards the supervised practical experience time requirement for the granting of high-pressure boiler operating engineer licenses

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Item 5 of section 28-413.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 77 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

5. Applicant successfully completed a New York [state approved] state-approved apprenticeship training program of at least two (2) years[, and after the completion of such program had]. Applicant shall also have at least three (3) years’ practical experience, within the seven (7) years preceding the date of the application, in the operation and maintenance of high-pressure boilers in the city under the direct and continuing supervision of a licensed high-pressure boiler operating engineer. The years of practical experience shall include practical experience gained separately but concurrently with enrollment in the apprenticeship training program. An applicant’s classroom training in the apprenticeship training program shall not itself be considered practical experience;

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

JMF/APM

LS #18204/18434

5/16/2025 5:18pm