Bill Text: NY A00898 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the approval of certain public authorities' contracts by the state comptroller.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A00898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           898
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL, ABINANTI, HYNDMAN, SEAWRIGHT --
          read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions
        AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the approval
          of certain public authorities contracts by the state comptroller
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 2879-a of the public authorities
     2  law, as added by chapter 506 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Except as set forth in subdivision three of this section, where the
     5  comptroller determines pursuant to his or her authority to supervise the
     6  accounts  of  public  corporations,  that  contracts  or  categories  of
     7  contracts in excess of one million dollars [(a)]  to  be  awarded  by  a
     8  state  authority  [to  a single source, a sole source or pursuant to any
     9  other method of procurement that is not competitive, or (b) which are to
    10  be paid in whole or in part from monies appropriated by the state  to  a
    11  state  authority  for such contractual expenditure], require supervision
    12  in the form of prior review and approval  of  such  contracts,  and  the
    13  comptroller  so  notifies such authority of such determination, then any
    14  such contract entered into subsequent  to  such  notification  shall  be
    15  submitted  to the comptroller for his or her approval and shall not be a
    16  valid enforceable contract unless it shall first have been  approved  by
    17  the  comptroller.  Such  notification  shall  identify  the  process for
    18  submission, the categories of contracts at issue and the time period for
    19  which such submission is to take place. The comptroller shall promulgate
    20  such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out his  or  her
    21  responsibilities  under  this  section, including but not limited to the
    22  standards for determining which contracts will be subject to his or  her
    23  review and for approving such contracts.
    24    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    25  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01790-01-9