Bill Text: NY A00621 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that when the state is purchasing commodities and such commodities are available and purchased from approved charitable non-profit-making agencies for the blind, the preferred source shall perform fifty percent or more of the work.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-23 - substituted by s858 [A00621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00621-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           621

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          threshold for the amount of work needed to be performed by a preferred
          source  which  is  an approved charitable non-profit-making agency for
          the blind; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expi-
          ration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ii)  of  paragraph  a  of  subdivision  4  of
     2  section 162 of the state finance law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws
     3  of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (ii) When commodities are available, in the form, function and utility
     5  required  by,  a state agency or political subdivision or public benefit
     6  corporation having their own purchasing agency, and such commodities are
     7  not available pursuant to  subparagraph  (i)  of  this  paragraph,  said
     8  commodities  shall  then  be purchased from approved charitable non-pro-
     9  fit-making agencies for the  blind,  provided,  however,  the  preferred
    10  source shall perform fifty percent or more of the work;
    11    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    12  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the state finance  law
    13  relating to preferred source status for entities that provide employment
    14  to  certain  persons, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7578-C
    15  and A. 8549-C, takes effect, and shall expire  and  be  deemed  repealed
    16  three years after such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04179-01-3