Bill Text: NY S08781 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that a board of education or a board of cooperative educational services shall have the authority to award contracts for school food services on the basis of certain scoring criteria.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-23 - referred to education [S08781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08781-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8781--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and  Contracts
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to contracts  for
          school  food services; 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  103  of  the general municipal law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,  in  the  case  of
     4  contracts  for  goods,  services,  or  management  in the operation of a
     5  school's food service, a board of education, on  behalf  of  its  school
     6  district, or a board of cooperative educational services, shall have the
     7  authority to award such contracts on the basis of certain scoring crite-
     8  ria  specifically  set forth in the solicitation documents determined by
     9  the procurement office or school board to be essential to the  provision
    10  of  a  safe  and  nutritious  food  service program with price being the
    11  primary factor and most  heavily  weighted  but  not  the  determinative
    12  factor.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    14  deemed repealed five years after such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14838-02-4