Bill Text: NY A02740 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines noncompliant state agency; provides for timelines and procedures for state agency contracts involving not-for-profit corporations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A02740 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2740

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        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.
                                                                   LBD05711-01-3