Bill Text: NY S04877 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4877

Introduced

Bill Title: Reduces the number of days for a state agency to register contracts with not-for-profit organizations to thirty; defines registered contract.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-26 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04877 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4877

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the time frame for
          the implementation of contracts with not-for-profit corporations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 179-q of the state finance law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a.  "Registered contract" means a completed contract package that is
     4  signed by both the state agency and not-for-profit organization and sent
     5  to the attorney general for approval.
     6    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 179-s of the state finance law, as added
     7  by chapter 166 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
     8    1. A state agency shall [have not more than  one  hundred  fifty  days
     9  following  the latest date on which any of the appropriations covered by
    10  the program plan become law to execute] register contracts with not-for-
    11  profit organizations pursuant to the program plan within thirty days  of
    12  the  start  date of the contract. Upon execution of each contract by the
    13  state agency and the not-for-profit  organization,  the  contract  shall
    14  immediately  be  delivered  to  the attorney general for approval.   The
    15  attorney general shall within fifteen days  of  receipt  either  approve
    16  such  contract or disapprove and return the contract to the state agency
    17  with reasons therefor. Upon approval, the contract shall be delivered to
    18  the comptroller who shall within fifteen days of receipt either  approve
    19  and  file  such  contract  or  disapprove and return the contract to the
    20  state agency with his reasons therefor.
    21    § 3.  Section 179-t of the state finance law is amended  by  adding  a
    22  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    23    6. A state agency shall register renewal contracts with not-for-profit
    24  organizations  pursuant  to  the  program plan within thirty days of the
    25  start date of the renewed contract.
    26    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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