Bill Text: NY A00367 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to awards of certain contracts to small businesses or businesses certified under article 15-A of the executive law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-14 - enacting clause stricken [A00367 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00367-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           367
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. COOK -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions
        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the award of
          certain contracts to  small  businesses  and/or  businesses  certified
          under  article 15-A of the executive law; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1678 of the public authorities law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 29 to read as follows:
     3    29. (a) To award contracts, notwithstanding any other provision of law
     4  to the contrary, for the procurement of goods  or  services  from  small
     5  businesses  and/or  businesses  certified under article fifteen-A of the
     6  executive law in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision.
     7    (b) Procurements made pursuant to this subdivision shall  be  governed
     8  by the authority's procurement policy and guidelines adopted pursuant to
     9  section  twenty-eight  hundred seventy-nine of this chapter. Such guide-
    10  lines shall include, but not be limited to: (i)  a  competitive  process
    11  that  provides opportunity and access to procurements, pursuant to which
    12  contracts may be awarded to small businesses and/or businesses certified
    13  under article fifteen-A of the executive law; (ii) provide  a  benchmark
    14  of  amounts  paid under contracts awarded under this subdivision against
    15  amounts paid under other authority contracts for like goods or services;
    16  and (iii) require an annual assessment  of  the  effectiveness  of  such
    17  procedures in helping the authority achieve the authority's goals estab-
    18  lished  pursuant  to  article fifteen-A of the executive law for partic-
    19  ipation by minority and women-owned enterprises. Such annual  assessment
    20  may  be  included  within the authority's annual report required by this
    21  article and shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary  president
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  of  the  senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
     2  senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
     3    (c)  The total value of contracts awarded pursuant to this subdivision
     4  shall not exceed two percent of the value of all  contracts  offered  in
     5  any  fiscal  year  of the authority; provided, however, the total amount
     6  available for award pursuant to this section shall not be less than  one
     7  percent  of the value of all contracts offered in any fiscal year of the
     8  authority.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire  July  1,
    10  2024  when  upon  such  date  the provisions of this act shall be deemed
    11  repealed.