Bill Text: NY S00921 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of prevailing market price and to preferred source subcontracts; authorizes a preferred source to subcontract an incidental portion of a contract to a vendor that is or is not a preferred source, provided that such subcontract does not diminish bona fide employment opportunities for persons who could otherwise be new clients of an entity previously accorded preferred source status.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S00921 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00921-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           921
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG,  BOYLE,  GRIFFO, HELMING, ORTT, SEPULVEDA,
          SEWARD -- read twice and ordered  printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN  ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the definition of
          prevailing market price and in relation to  preferred  source  subcon-
          tracts
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 162 of the state  finance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g.  For  the  purposes  of  this  subdivision only, "prevailing market
     4  price" shall mean the average price at which  vendors  of  the  same  or
     5  similar  product or service regularly engaged in the business of selling
     6  such product or service offers to sell such  product  or  service  under
     7  similar terms in the same market.
     8    §  2.  Section 162 of the state finance law is amended by adding a new
     9  subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
    10    6-a. Preferred source subcontracts. Pursuant to guidelines established
    11  by the state procurement council, a preferred source may subcontract  an
    12  incidental  portion  of  a  contract  to  a  vendor  that is or is not a
    13  preferred source, provided that such subcontract does not diminish  bona
    14  fide  employment  opportunities  for  persons who could otherwise be new
    15  clients of an entity previously accorded preferred source  status.  Such
    16  subcontract  shall  be  integral  to  the service being delivered by the
    17  providing preferred source agency.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01459-02-9