Bill Text: NY A01144 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to preferred sources in procurement; provides for a separate agency to facilitate distribution of orders among veterans' workshops.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-22 - held for consideration in veterans' affairs [A01144 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01144-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1144
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, LUPARDO, COLTON, TOWNS, SCHROEDER, BENE-
         DETTO, P. RIVERA, HAWLEY, SPANO, MAGNARELLI, CASTELLI  --  Multi-Spon-
         sored  by  -- M. of A. BOYLAND, CLARK, CUSICK, GUNTHER, KOLB, LATIMER,
         P. LOPEZ, J. MILLER, MILLMAN, PEOPLES-STOKES, PHEFFER -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
       AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to  providing  for  a
         separate  agency  to facilitate distribution of orders among veterans'
         workshops for state purchases
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  e of subdivision 6 of section 162 of the state
    2  finance law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is  amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    e.  The  [state] commissioner of social services shall appoint the New
    5  York state commission for the blind and visually handicapped,  or  other
    6  non-profit-making  agency,  other than the agency representing the other
    7  severely disabled, to facilitate the distribution of orders among quali-
    8  fied non-profit-making charitable agencies for the  blind.  The  [state]
    9  commissioner  of  education  shall  appoint  a non-profit-making agency,
   10  other than the agency representing the blind, to facilitate the distrib-
   11  ution of orders among qualified  non-profit-making  charitable  agencies
   12  for  the  other  severely  disabled [and the]. THE STATE DIRECTOR OF THE
   13  DIVISION OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS SHALL APPOINT A NON-PROFIT-MAKING  AGENCY,
   14  OTHER  THAN  THE AGENCY REPRESENTING THE BLIND OR THE SEVERELY DISABLED,
   15  TO FACILITATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF ORDERS AMONG QUALIFIED veterans' work-
   16  shops.  The [state] commissioner of mental health shall  facilitate  the
   17  distribution of orders among qualified special employment programs oper-
   18  ated  or  approved  by  the office of mental health serving mentally ill
   19  persons.
   20    S 2. 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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