Bill Text: NY A09510 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9510

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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - print number 9510a [A09510 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09510-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9510--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on  Education  --  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    14  deemed repealed five years after such effective date.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.
                                                                   LBD14838-03-4