Bill Text: NY A03587 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to establish guidelines relating to the disqualification of contractors applying to perform stand-by contracts relating to past performance, reasonableness of pricing, acts of negligence and convictions for certain crimes reflecting on honesty, integrity and capability of any contractor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A03587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03587-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3587

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          guidelines for disqualifying stand-by contractors

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision  4  of  section  3-0309  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law  is  amended  by adding a new paragraph a-1 to read as
     3  follows:
     4    a-1. guidelines for disqualifying contractors  which  shall  be  based
     5  upon section one hundred thirty-nine-b of the state finance law and such
     6  other  factors  deemed  appropriate  including, but not limited to, past
     7  performance on state contracts, reasonableness of price charged for past
     8  performance of state contracts, any negligence or malfeasance  committed
     9  during  the past performance of state contracts, and any conviction of a
    10  crime which reflects upon the honesty,  integrity  or  capability  of  a
    11  contractor;  provided,  however  that  a  criminal  conviction  shall be
    12  considered in a manner consistent with  article  twenty-three-A  of  the
    13  correction law;
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    15  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
    18  before such effective date.



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